‘Kramer vs. Kramer’ Download and Reviews

December 12, 2009 by Paul Wall  
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“Kramer vs. Kramer” Movie Details

Kramer vs. Kramer tagline: There are three sides to this love story!
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Kramer vs. Kramer DVD Cover

Actors:
Dustin Hoffman Ted Kramer
Meryl Streep Joanna Kramer
Jane Alexander Margaret Phelps
Justin Henry Billy Kramer
Howard Duff John Shaunessy
George Coe Jim O’Connor
JoBeth Williams Phyllis Bernard
Bill Moor Gressen
Howland Chamberlain Judge Atkins
Jack Ramage Spencer
Jess Osuna Ackerman
Nicholas Hormann Interviewer
Ellen Parker Teacher
Shelby Brammer Ted’s Secretary
Carol Nadell Mrs. Kline
Directors: Robert Benton
IMDB Rating: 7.7/10 out of 23,326 votes

“Kramer vs. Kramer” Movie Review

“Kramer Versus Kramer” Plot Summary

A just divorced man must learn to care for his son on his own, and then must fight in court to keep custody of him. add synopsis

A fine movie

No, this has nothing to do with the sitcom ‘Seinfeld’ or its eccentric and hilarious character Cosmo Kramer. In reality, ‘Kramer vs. Kramer’ is a fine drama movie, without a doubt one of the finest of its kind and one of the greatest movies ever. I’m glad that it won more Oscars than ‘Apocalypse Now’ because it really deserved such glory.’Kramer vs. Kramer’ is an excellent film, so well made and so perfectly balanced that I wouldn’t change anything about it in any way. There is nothing wrong with the film. It’s film-making of the highest quality. And it stands the test of time, too. Not only it doesn’t look any dated, but also its cultural impact is long-lasting and its realistic story remains just as significant as it was when it came out in 1979. A timeless classic. They don’t make movies like this today

This movie is dramatic, realistic, simple but brilliant, intense, powerful, sweet and even tragic and depressing sometimes. Yet, it has fine humor as well. It has no special effects, but who cares? This is not the movie or place to discuss such thing. For a movie like this, such thing would be pointless and absolutely unnecessary

The story is very interesting. The actors’s chemistry is just perfect. All of the actors are great, but the 3 main ones are the very best. Dustin Hoffman, a brilliant actor, has his greatest performance ever here as the lovable but distant workaholic Ted Kramer. Meryl Streep is great as Ted’s wife, Joanna. And cute little Justin Henry is terrific as the loving but sometimes stubborn Billy, son of Ted and Joanna

The soundtrack is all instrumental and wonderful. The opening song (by the guitarist Frederic Hand) is brilliant. The rest of the soundtrack is mostly Antonio Vivaldi’s classical music and is simply dazzling

This motion picture has also an incredible development of the characters. See the character Ted Kramer: a workaholic who becomes an amazing father after being left with no choice but to take care of his son, trying to adjust these new responsibilities with his job after being left by his wife Joanna. With this, Ted learns about the most beautiful things in life, but also realizes how though life is, with the problems in his job and the return of Joanna, who wants the custody of their son. But even Joanna changes for better and the ending is an unexpected surprise when one sees this for the first time

This movie has also some though things, such as courtroom scenes where both Ted and Joanna face brutal character assassinations unleashed by the lawyers. Another though thing to see is when poor Billy falls off a jungle gym with his toy (a plane) and gets seriously injured on his face. But then again, the scene is very well made and what comes next is very intense: his father runs quickly and crosses numerous blocks, ignoring the traffic to take his son to the hospital

Overall, this is a movie which is a good lesson of life

This should definitely be on Top 250.

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