‘Kramer vs. Kramer’: Parenting Is a Partnership, Not a Playoff

A film on parenting weighs the independence of husband and wife over the family.

Billy (Justin Henry, L) and Ted Kramer (Dustin Hoffman) make breakfast, in "Kramer vs. Kramer." Columbia Pictures

PG | 1h 45min | Drama | 1979

Films frequently celebrate separation and single parenthood as freeing, and traditional marriage and parenthood as enslaving. This movie, based on Avery Corman’s novel “Kramer Versus Kramer,” busts that myth.