Film · Drama
Kramer vs. Kramer
“There are three sides to this love story.”
19791h 45mDir Robert Benton7.6TMDB
Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now faced with the tasks of housekeeping and taking care of himself and their young son Billy.
Top Cast
24 total
Dustin Hoffman
as Ted Kramer
Meryl Streep
as Joanna Kramer
Jane Alexander
as Margaret Phelps
Justin Henry
as Billy Kramer
Howard Duff
as John Shaunessy
George Coe
as Jim O'Connor
JoBeth Williams
as Phyllis Bernard
Bill Moor
as Gressen
The scene we cut
He already is home
She wins custody and then tells him she is not going to take the boy.
Streep rewrote her courtroom speech herself. Hoffman slapped her for real in an earlier scene and she never forgave him.
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