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Product Details Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Jane Alexander, Justin Henry, Howard Duff Format: Anamorphic, Subtitled, Color, Dubbed Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono) Subtitles: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Georgian, Chinese, Thai Region: Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only) Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Number of discs: 1 Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Studio: Sony Pictures DVD Release Date: August 28, 2001 Run Time: 105 minutes

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Trying to secure a new job in order to obtain legal custody of his son, Ted Kramer interviews for one during an office Christmas party.

Robert Benton's moving and well-observed adaptation of Avery Corman's novel about the aftermath of divorce stars Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep as the separating couple, Ted and Joanna Kramer. When dutiful wife and mother Joanna decides to leave Ted, an advertising executive, she also leaves him with the responsibility of caring for their young son, Billy (Justin Henry). The situation proves to be especially difficult since the workaholic father has never really taken care of the boy and, in truth, barely knows him. Things are rough at first, but as the two become accustomed to life without Joanna and Ted's caretaking skills improve, father and son finally develop a relationship. As Ted devotes more time to his son and less to his work, however, the latter suffers, and Ted's subsequent firing coincides with the return of Joanna, who wants her son back.