Kramer vs. Kramer
Joanna treats her life exceptionally by getting a new life. Joanna goes away and leaves her son and husband Ted Kramer at that time. Ted tries to deal with things naturally after separation and raises his son to become a good boy, but it is difficult to live together. It looks like everyone will be hungry to come back.
22 December 1944, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
14 January 1919, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
16 May 1948, Drammen, Norway
5 August 1944, New York City, New York, USA
November 14, 2008
it remains one of the most compelling films of the decade, even if time has tarnished a bit of its sheen.
February 06, 2013
Kramer Vs. Kramer is a perceptive, touching, intelligent film about one of the raw sores of contemporary America, the dissolution of the family unit.
May 06, 2017
A triumph of partisan pathos, a celebration of father-son bonding that astutely succeeds were tearjerkers like "The Champ" so mawkishly failed.
January 17, 2014
There is so seldom even one great performance in a movie that three is too much to expect. For that reason alone, this story of a couple battling for custody of their young son is a remarkable achievement.
February 21, 2015
Kramer vs. Kramer is greatly enriched by its exceptional cast.
January 17, 2014
What could so easily have become something false and tacky is handled with truth and restraint.
February 06, 2013
Benton's direction must first be praised for his choice of actors and his collaboration with them.
February 06, 2013
Like a few other recent movies, it takes a serious look at problems faced in real people in real life -- family conflicts, personality problems, childrearing dilemmas.
February 19, 2013
It's an interesting movie to look back on for its attitudes: In the guise of being a consciousness-raiser it plumps for male tenderness and demonizes the mother who can't recognize how far her workaholic ex-hubbie has come.
April 24, 2012
Benton's Oscar-winning film, a middlebrow family melodrama, well acted by Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep, reflected the new positions and struggles of women in American society.
February 11, 2014
Sensitive, truthful look at the breakup of a family.
December 19, 2016
What Benton achieved with his screenplay he intensified with his direction. Each performance is a minor miracle of perfection - not only Hoffman's and Streep's, which dominate the picture, but each of the supporting roles as well.

