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MEET TED and Joanna. Ted is your average on the rise Madison Avenue type, who catches cabs better than any human being in New York. Joanna is your average wife of your average on the rise Madison Avenue type. Ted and Joanna have a seven year-old child named Billy. Billy is very cute and precocious. They all live in a nice two-bedroom apartment on the Upper East Side...
Unfortunately for Ted, Joanna does not like being married to him any more. One night Joanna gives Ted her Bloomingdales charge card and Billy and goes off to California to find hereself. Mean-while, Ted learns to be daddy. Then Joanna comes back and tells Ted that she wants Billy back. A messy custody battle ensues...
Meryl Streep's Joanna is equally well-studied. Streep could have let herself fall into the role she played in Manhattan--the spiteful, surly bitch. But her Joanna is three-dimensional, the unquestioning young mother, the frustrated wife, the desperately independent career woman. She evokes sympathy where others would be satisfied with hatred. Justin Henry's Billy is not just another in the string of Tatum O'Neal-styled brats. The kid is no actor and the natural touches he adds--the smirk over a pint of chocolate chip ice cream, amusement at watching his father ruin the french toast...
...scene in All the President's Men) establishes a new type of man-woman-in-the-movies relationship; they are friends, very strong friends, but just that. Alexander's performance is crucial to the success of the film, as she moves with the audience's feelings, first sympathetic to Joanna's plight and gradually realizing that Ted's heart is in the right place...
Kramer is an adaptation of one of those best-selling, touching novels that appeared a few years ago. Stunningly beautiful Meryl Streep plays Joanna Kramer, who walks out on a torturous eight-year marriage to her ad-man workaholic husband Ted (Dustin Hoffman) and her seven-year-old munchkin (Justin Henry). The divorce leaves Ted to mother his son, and for months he fails dismally; but after they establish poignant love, Joanna reappears and wants Billy back...