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  Kramer vs. Kramer
"Kramer vs. Kramer" is a Manhattan movie, yet it seems to speak for an entire generation of middle-class Americans who came to maturity in the late 60's and early 70's, sophisticated in superficial ways but still expecting the fulfillment of promises made in the more pious Eisenhower era.
"Kramer vs. Kramer" is one of those rare American movies that never have to talk importantly and self-consciously to let you know that it has to do with many more things than are explicitly stated.
Though much of "Kramer vs. Kramer" is occupied with the growing relationship between the abandoned father and son, through tantrums and reconcilations and playground accidents, the central figure is that of the movingly, almost dangerously muddled mother, played by Miss Streep in what is one of the major performances of the year.
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 :: rogerebert.com :: Kramer vs. Kramer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
"Kramer vs. Kramer" is a movie of good performances, and it had to be, because the performances can't rest on conventional melodrama.
In "Kramer vs. Kramer," Benton asked her to state her character's own case in the big scene where she argues for her child from the witness stand.
That's what makes "Kramer vs. Kramer" such a touching film: We get the feeling at times that personalities are changing and decisions are being made even as we watch them.
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 Kramer Vs Kramer
KRAMER VERSUS KRAMER Screenplay by Robert Benton Based on the novel by Avery Corman Revised Third Draft July 14, 1978 ---------------------------------------------------------------- FADE IN: 1 INT.
HIS P.O.V.: across the room eighteen to twenty mothers (Ted Kramer is the only man present) are gathered, sitting on tiny chairs and at work tables watching as their children put on a show.
Kramer, I just wanted to tell you what a wonderful boy your son is. TED (clearly attracted to her) I don't know...I've been worried...
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 Kramer vs. Kramer, 1979
Kramer vs. Kramer is hardly a ground breaking film, particularly in 1979, when the world was getting used to the shake ups that women's lib, sexual freedom and civil rights had caused earlier in the decade.
Kramer vs. Kramer was nominated for nine Academy Award nominations, winning five of them.
She was nominated for Kramer, but also received notice for her roles in Manhatten and The Seduction of Joe Tynan.
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 Kramer vs. Kramer
It begins when Joanna Kramer (Meryl Streep) bluntly informs her husband Ted (Dustin Hoffman) that she's leaving him, just as his advertising career is advancing and demanding most of his waking hours.
The movie basicly is a Family Drama in which Ted Kramer (Dustin Hoffman) is left with his 6-year old son (Justin Henry) by his wife Joanna (Meryl Streep) because she feels that something is missing in her life and she feels trap.
The Kramer 1984 Reissue vs the Charvel EVH Reissue: The Kramer 1984 Reissue vs the Charvel EVH Reissue By Mike Mojabi, Kramermaniaxe.com When I was asked to do a comparison review of the Kramer 1984 and the Charvel EVH Art Series, I had to...
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 DVD Verdict Review - Kramer vs. Kramer
Kramer vs. Kramer asks the question "what if it were the father who had to raise the child?" This may not be the newest concept, but back in 1979 audiences had never seen a film dealing with this subject matter (in fact, the subject of divorce was scarcely present in most movies back then).
Kramer vs. Kramer is based on the book by Avery Corman and written for the screen with sensitivity by Benton.
Kramer vs. Kramer is presented in 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen.
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PHYLLIS Kramer-- TED Now in Haskins vs. Haskins the court ruled in favor of the mother, thus establishing a precedent for awarding the child to the mother even though she previously abandoned the baby.
Kramer, you said you were married seven years.
Kramer, did you, or did you not tell the child's mother that you were responsible for the injury that permanently disfigured your child?
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 Spirituality & Health: Movie Review: Kramer vs. Kramer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Kramer vs. Kramer is based on Avery Corman's 1977 novel.
Dustin Hoffman is Ted Kramer, a hardworking young man in a New York advertising agency whose wife Joanna (Meryl Streep) deserts him and their six-year-old son Billy (Justin Henry) in hopes of finding a life for herself beyond motherhood.
Kramer vs. Kramer is to be commended for its vivid presentation of these important questions: Is good parenting a matter of personal qualities or sex determined?
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 DVD Savant Review: Kramer vs. Kramer
Kramer vs. Kramer takes what might be fodder for an exploitative television movie, and makes from it one of the better movies about family dynamics.
Kramer vs. Kramer made it very clear for a generation of selfish baby boomers that the responsibility of raising kids isn't something to be taken lightly.
Kramer vs. Kramer predictably winds up in an involved courtroom scene, but one organized not along legal lines but instead as a process of emotional discovery.
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 Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
She has been in California, has been going to therapy, has a new job and now is looking to gain custody of her son.
In the end, Kramer vs. Kramer was nominated for 9 Oscars and won 5, not 6 as the souvenir booklet enclosed with the disc says.
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On September 2004 Kramer Russia installed a switching system in a non-linear editing studio of a Russian serial production company in order to optimize its use of video cassette recorders and...
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 KRAMER VS. KRAMER
KRAMER VS. KRAMER is a film everyone should see.
I only recently watched it for the first time and I was amazed at how relevant it still is. More than a film about divorce, this is a story about a man who falls in love with his son.
KRAMER VS. KRAMER is an intense family drama that deserves every award it received.
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 eye - Kramer vs. Kramer - 09.26.02
Larry Kramer and I used to be as different as two people can be.
Kramer is an infamous AIDS activist and author of the play The Normal Heart.
He became so angry with his doctors that he allowed a photo of himself in his underwear to be printed for all the world to see.
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 DVD Booty - Kramer vs. Kramer
No one who saw KRAMER VS KRAMER when it first came out ever was able to look at her again without thinking in the back of their heads, "There she is, the selfish one.
Kramer vs. Kramer, Robert Benton, Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Jane Alexander, Justin Henry, Howar...
Kramer Vs. Kramer (1979): find the latest news, photos and trailers, as well as local showtimes/dvd...
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 Kramer vs. Kramer -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Kramer vs. Kramer is a 1979 (Photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion; used to make negatives or transparencies) film which tells the story of a (The legal dissolution of a marriage) divorce and its impact on everyone involved, including the couple's young son.
In the film, a man's wife leaves "to find herself"; the man adjusts to living alone and caring for his son; and then the woman returns and a battle over custody of the son ensues.
The movie was adapted by (Click link for more info and facts about Robert Benton) Robert Benton from the novel by Avery Corman, and directed by Benton.
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 Kramer Vs. Kramer (1979)
Although it is a bitter court battle, Joanna wins custody of young Billy Kramer, even though she was the one that left and went semi-crazy.
Kramer Vs. Kramer was a decent movie, and although it had a lot of great potential, leaves you wondering and totally unfullfilled as the movie ends.
In Kramer Vs. Kramer he plays a man who is about to loose his son if he doesn't shape up, get a job, and realize that family comes before work.
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 Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Young husband and father Ted Kramer (Dustin Hoffman) loves his family - and his job, which is where he spends most of his time.
Kramer Vs. Kramer appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 1.85:1 on this single-sided, dual-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
While I don’t believe that Kramer Vs. Kramer was the best film of 1979, it did provide a reasonably engaging and vivid experience.
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 Kramer Vs. Kramer
On the very night TV's Kramer waves bye-bye, a more valuable Kramer will be weirding out delicately, frenetically and blissfully on stage at Nick's.
Kramer is that sunburst, acid-blasted wild child—the iconoclastic producer/performer who practically started America's dirt-art-alt-rock scene (finally someone to blame) by producing and/or discovering Pussy Galore, GWAR, King Missile, Urge Overkill, Shockabilly, Half Japanese, Royal Trux, White Zombie, Ween, Galaxie 500, Bongwater and countless others.
Kramer founded his label Shimmy Disc in 1987 hoping to help fiercely phlegmatic art rockers like himself flourish.
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 Encyclopedia: Kramer vs. Kramer
Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general.
Justin Henry (born May 25, 1971 in Rye, New York) was an American child actor in Kramer vs....
Actor Howard Duff in Johnny Stool Pigeon Actor Howard Duff (November 24, 1913-July 8, 1990) was a radio and stage performer before he began appearing in films in the late 1940s.
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 The DVD Journal | Quick Reviews: Kramer vs. Kramer
But her first exercise in this oddly white-trash pronunciation was Kramer vs. Kramer, the Oscar-winning film from 1979 set among the upwardly mobile of Manhattan.
Kramer vs. Kramer is the kind of movie to which the words "intelligent," "moving," and "beautifully crafted" cling like boogers to fingers.
Kramer vs. Kramer is one of those rare films that has about five or six great scenes that everyone remembers: the "French toast" scene, the "ice cream" scene, the "first bike ride" scene, the "run to the ER" scene, the "broken wine glass" scene.
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 Stick It In The Slot: A VGG Salute to the Atari 2600
A two-player game reminiscent of Pong, Kramer vs. Kramer (Winter 1980) differed in that it was played in a court rather than on one.
Players could choose either Ted Kramer (left player) or Joanna Kramer (right player) and argue their case in front of a digitized judge.
Each hit removed a point from the player's case; when a player's score hit zero, he or she loses the trial and custody of the child.
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 Kramer Vs Kramer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Columbia - There are three sides to this love story.KRAMER VS KRAMER is a story of contemporary relationships, values and choices.
KRAMER VS KRAMER is a story of contemporary relationships, values and choices.
Career-driven and ambitious, Ted Kramer (DUSTIN HOFFMAN from TOOTSIE) returns home form work late one night to be told by his wife, Joanna (MERYL STREEP from OUT OF AFRICA) that she is leaving him.
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 Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Billy Kramer: You're not gonna kiss me good night anymore, are you, Dad?
Ted Kramer: No, I won't be able to do that.
Kramer Vs. Kramer stars two of my favorite thespians: Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman.
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 Amazon.co.uk: DVD: Kramer vs Kramer [1979]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Hoffman's Ted Kramer is a vision of the Graduate grown up: serious, focused and thrown by anything that threatens his upwardly mobile professional trajectory.
The news that his wife, who he has failed to notice teetering on the edge of a breakdown, is leaving him and their son sends him into a tailspin.
It is quite astonishing how relevant it all still seems; Hoffman's Ted Kramer starkly defines the work that ultimately has to go into fatherhood, family and friendship.
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 REELINSIDER.COM - KRAMER VS KRAMER (1979)
For every Ted Kramer making the best of difficult times of which he's partially the cause and solution there are several more Joanna Kramers who are left unmentioned.
For every Billy Kramer struggling to understand why his parents can't live together there are many thousands more similarly alarmed and upset with the way the world changes.
This sad fact is well evidenced by Kramer vs. Kramer but as far as mind-blowing cinema is concerned, I side with Apocalypse Now and Manhattan as the year's bets movies with Benton's social issue movie as an uncrowned also ran.
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 At-A-Glance Film Reviews: Kramer Vs. Kramer (1979)
It opens with two cliches: a man neglects his family because he's working to land a "big account and later proves himself so incompetent in the kitchen that breakfast is headed more toward the floor than hungry mouths.
But we warm up to Kramer Vs. Kramer quickly when we realize the understanding it possesses of human relationships.
Touching and funny, Kramer Vs. Kramer proved to be a hit with a wide demographic cross section.
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 Variety.com - Reviews - Kramer vs. Kramer
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Kramer vs. Kramer is a perceptive, touching, intelligent film about one of the raw sores of contemporary America, the dissolution of the family unit.
It is in the latter arena that Kramer takes place, as Meryl StreepMeryl Streep breaks with up-and-coming ad execexec Dustin HoffmanDustin Hoffman and tyke Justin Henry to find her own role in life.
www.variety.com /review/VE1117792385?categoryid=31&cs=1   (258 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Video: Kramer Vs. Kramer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
KRAMER VS. KRAMER is an effective tearjerker with somewhat of an unrealistic ending.
The film shows the evolution Ted Kramer (Hoffman) with the relationship of his son and the definition of being a father.
But still "Kramer vs Kramer" was nominated for 9 Oscars, and walked away with 5.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0800106032   (1557 words)

  
 Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) review by Groucho
Joanna Kramer (Meryl Streep), the young wife of Mr.
Ted Kramer (Dustin Hoffman), suddenly leaves him and their young son (Justin Henry), and only then does Ted realize how unhappy she was, and why.
He is then forced to learn to be a father, and a mother, and still handle his absorbing job—just after his responsibilities in it have increased.
www.criticsociety.com /review.asp?id=628   (147 words)

  
 SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Kramer vs. Kramer
"Kramer vs. Kramer" and "The War of the Roses" are two of the films inside, yet it's impossible to see the images beyond the closed doors.
Benton, whose other movies include Kramer vs. Kramer, Places in the Heart and Nobody's Fool, is the kind of director whose affection and respect for actors seep through the screen; his solicitude seems to open them up.
As brought to the screen by director Robert Benton ("Kramer vs. Kramer," "Places in the Heart"), it becomes an absolutely haunting drama that reveals itself subtly, secret by terrible secret, to a conclusion that is both tragic and surprisingly exhilarating.
movies.surfwax.com /files/Kramer_vs._Kramer_Movie.html   (3698 words)

  
 Gretsch Discussion Page Archive: Kramer vs. Kramer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
There was a trumpet player, a drummer, a California guitar player named Kramer and my neighbor Bill, the only one of the 4 who understood production and manufacturing.
He was the R and D and production guru who actually designed the tooling and made all the dies and templates for the metal necks and bodies, and worked it nights and weekends for 2 years, because he was an aerospace engineer by trade during the day.
The rumor, from what I have heard, is that Kramer stopped using the aluminum necks because players hands would get too cold to play.
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