Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 105 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
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.
- husband wife relationship
- marriage
- custody battle
- divorce
- family
- couple
- selfishness
- manhattan
- new york city
- child custody
- abandonment
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
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
- Directed
- Robert Benton
- Written
- Robert Benton
Production
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 · 2,530 ratings
- Studio
- Columbia Pictures, Stanley Jaffe Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
