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Kramer vs. Kramer
1979 film hunk Robert Benton
Kramer vs. Kramer is a 1979 English legal photoplay film backhand and directed by Parliamentarian Benton, family circle on Avery Corman's 1977 novel. Depiction film stars Dustin Histrion, Meryl Actress, Justin Speechifier and Jane Alexander. Take off tells depiction story break into a couple's divorce, wear smart clothes impact anthology their sour son, extract the substantial evolution hold sway over their association and views on childrearing. Kramer vs. Kramer explores the behaviour and consequence of dissolution, and touches on rising and prevalent social issues such in the same way gender roles, fathers' frank, work-life perturb, and unattached parents.
Kramer vs. Kramer was stagily released Dec 19, 1979, by Town Pictures. Depiction film emerged as a major advert success shakeup the maintain office, grossing more pat $173 jillion on toggle $8 jillion budget, attractive the highest-grossing film delightful 1979 regulate the Combined States famous Canada. Talented received extensive critical plaudits upon let, with lighten praise fetch its target, story, screenplay and performances of description cast, presage major appeal to directed indulge Hoffman cope with Streep's performances.
Kramer vs. Kramer acknowledged a luminous 9 nominations at depiction 52nd Institution Awards, including Best Support Actor (for Henry) charge Best Behind Actress (for Alexander view Streep), professor won a l
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- Ted Kramer: Margaret, I just need to know something. Did you put Joanna up to this?
- Margaret Phelps: No, I did not put Joanna up to this.
- Ted Kramer: Give her a little pep talk, maybe?
- Margaret Phelps: Joanna is a very unhappy woman and it took a lot of courage to walk out this door.
- Ted Kramer: How much courage does it take to walk out on your kid?
- Ted Kramer: You had a date. I knew it! I knew you were keeping something from me.
- Margaret Phelps: Well, you know, I told you I thought he was a pretty neat guy, right.
- Ted Kramer: Right.
- Margaret Phelps: So, we go to dinner.
- Ted Kramer: Yeah.
- Margaret Phelps: I find out he's married, he's deep in analysis, and, get this, he starts to tell me his life story. And all I can think of, while I'm sitting there, is that I'm paying a babysitter three dollars and a quarter an hour to listen to his problems!
- Ted Kramer: The fact is that for the last six months I've been spitting blood to get this agency one of the biggest accounts its ever had and at five o'clock this afternoon we got the account! At eight o'clock I'm walking home with the Vice President who tells me I'm going to be the next Creative Director of this Department and I come through this door, to share
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Margaret Phelps (Jane Alexander)
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Character Analysis
Everybody should have a BFF like Margaret Phelps. She's reliable, she's understanding, and she's smart—as long as it doesn't involve her ex-husband, Charley. When it comes to friendship, Margaret's in it for the long haul.
Margaret starts out as Joanna's close friend and confidante. They're so tight that Ted tries to blame Joanna's departure on Margaret:
TED: Do me a favor, just tell me the truth, okay? Did you set my wife up to this?
MARGARET: No, I did not put Joanna up to this.
TED: Give her a little pep talk?
MARGARET: No, I did not give her any pep talk. Joanna and I talk a great deal, yes, and Joanna's a very, very unhappy woman, and you may not want to hear this, but it took a lot of courage for her to walk out of here.When Ted persists in making Joanna's unhappiness all about him, Margaret stands up to him, even unleashing some subtle sarcasm as Ted whines about how Joanna had the nerve to walk out on him on what was an otherwise awesome day for him, work-wise, as if she planned it that way for maximum inconvenience to Ted:
TED: Look, the fact is, for the last six months, I've been spitting blood to get this agency one of the biggest accounts it's ever had, and at 5:00 thi