The movie's about a situation rich in opportunities for choosing up sides: a divorce and a fight for the custody of a child But what matters in a story like this in the movies and in real life, too isn't who's right or wrong, but if the people involved are able to behave according to their own better nature. Isn't it so often the case that we're selfish and mean-spirited in just those tricky human situations that require our limited stores of saintliness?
Kramer" is about just such a situation. It begins with a marriage filled with a lot of unhappiness, ego and selfishness, and ends with two single people who have both learned important things about the ways they want to behave. There is a child caught in the middle -- their first-grader, Billy -- but this isn't a movie about the plight of the kid but about the plight of the parents. Hollywood has traditionally approached stories like this from the child's point of view, showing him unhappy and neglected by the grownups -- but what if the grownups aren't really grown up?
What about a family in which everybody is still basically a kid crying for attention and searching for identity? That's the case here.
The movie stars Dustin Hoffman as a workaholic advertising executive whose thoughts are almost entirely centered around his new account -- so much so that when he comes home and his wife announces she's walking out on their marriage, he hardly hears her and doesn't really take her seriously.
But his wife Meryl Streep is walking out. She needs time to find herself, she says; to discover the unrealized person she left behind when she went into the marriage.
Right away we're close to choosing sides and laying blame: How can she walk out on her home and child? But we can't quite ask that question in all sincerity, because what we've already seen of Hoffman makes it fairly clear why she might have decided to walk out.
She may be leaving the family but he's hardly been a part of it. Harassed, running late, taking his son to school on the first day after his wife has left, he asks him: "What grade are you in? Hoffman didn't know. The movie leaves Streep offscreen during its middle passages, as Hoffman and the kid get to know each other, and as Hoffman's duties as a parent eventually lead to his firing at the ad agency.
These scenes are the movie's most heart-warming. Go to sleep now because it's really late, okay? Good night. Sleep tight. Billy Kramer : Don't let the bedbugs bite. Ted Kramer : See you in the morning light. Billy Kramer : I love you. Ted Kramer : I love you too. Sign In. Play trailer Director Robert Benton. Avery Corman from the novel by Robert Benton written for the screen by.
Top credits Director Robert Benton. See more at IMDbPro. Trailer Kramer Vs. Kramer -- Trailer. Full Episode Video Sneak Previews Season 3 Episode 7. Sneak Previews Season 2 Episode Photos Top cast Edit.
Bill Moor Gressen as Gressen. Jack Ramage Spencer as Spencer. Jess Osuna Ackerman as Ackerman. Nicholas Hormann Interviewer as Interviewer.
Ellen Parker Teacher as Teacher. Carol Nadell Mrs. Kline as Mrs. Donald Gantry Surgeon as Surgeon. Judith Calder Receptionist as Receptionist. Peter Lownds Norman as Norman. Robert Benton. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. 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. When he has learned to adjust his life to these new responsibilities, Joanna resurfaces and wants Billy back.
Ted, however, refuses to give him up, so they go to court to fight for the custody of their son. There are three sides to this love story! It was new territory for the big screen.
The plot of the film, one that would have sounded bizarre a decade ago, seems entirely plausible in today's world of mothers seeking self-fulfillment and fathers seeking custody of young children. Kramer" packed theaters, accelerated conversations and sparked debate. Men were becoming thinkers and feelers, not just doers.
Fragile and emotional. Getting in touch with their feelings, as it was known at the time. Especially onscreen: Overachiever Ted Kramer is seen unmoored by the simple task of making French toast for his son. His single-father fear and sadness are on wide-screen display.
Kramer" was, in fact, one of no fewer than six big-name movies released in the final three months of that showcased this evolving American male.
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