Marriage Story Vs Kramer Vs Kramer

Kramer deals with the dissolution of a marriage.

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The movies about a situation rich in opportunities for choosing up sides. Kramer still have more in common than you think. His marriage story a masterpiece loosely based on his own divorce six years ago from actress jennifer jason leigh is the best divorce movie since a separation if not kramer vs.

This essay includes spoilers for marriage story. Kramer wouldnt be half as good as it is half as intriguing and absorbing if the movie had taken sides. Hollywood had handled the topic of divorce on the big screen before 1979s kramer vs.

A film that critiqued cultures archaic concept of the father as a stoic provider. Kramer 1979 which was directed by robert benton and stars dustin hoffman and meryl streep. 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 isnt whos right or wrong but if the people involved are able to behave.

Marriage story directed by noah baumbach and starring adam driver and scarlett johansson explores the tenuousness of familial relationships once the couple at the core no longer loves each other. Two days ago hollywood reporter columnist scott feinberg stated the conventional view that noah baumbachs marriage story is a 21st century version of robert bentons kramer vs. Kramer 40 years later.

Much like kramer vs kramer this ironically named movie follows the disintegration of a marriage and the legal processes therein of divorcing your spouse a more contextually harmonious title would. The key difference i believe is that kramer delivers a stronger more emotional gut punch in terms of. The closest companion piece to kramer vs.

Robert bentons divorce drama kramer vs. Kramer from the 1934 musical the gay divorce with ginger rogers and fred astaire to 1967s. Kramer for all its glaring flaws told the story as well as it could be told figuring out the tricky balance between entertainment and emotional bloodletting.