United States

Kramer vs. Kramer is the box-office smash that garnered 5 Oscars including Best Picture, Best Actor for Dustin Hoffman and Best Supporting Actress for Meryl Streep. It's a story of contemporary relationships, values and choices. Returning home late from work one night, a career-obsessed Ted Kramer (Hoffman) is told by his wife, Joanna (Streep), that she is leaving him. After a lifetime of being "somebody's daughter or somebody's wife", she's going off to find herself - leaving Ted to care for their six-year-old son. Ted, while trying to hold down his job, gets to really know his son as few fathers do: cooking his meals, taking him to the park, understanding every need and fear. For the first time in his life he feels like a fulfilled parent. But then Joanna returns. And she wants her son back.