Robert Benton

All Movies of Robert Benton

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  5.9
  Feast of Love
  A meditation on love and its various incarnations, set within a community of friends in Oregon, and is described as an exploration of the magical, mysterious and sometimes painful incarnations of love. In a coffee shop in a tig...
  Director of the film

   2007

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  5.9
  The Human Stain
  Coleman Silk (Anthony Hopkins) is a respected light-skinned African-American professor at a prestigious New England college who has kept his true racial identity a secret for the last fifty years. His life changes when he meets Fa...
  Director of the film

   2003

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  6.0
  Twilight
  Director of the film

   1998

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  7.9
  Nobody's Fool
  Sully is a rascally ne'er-do-well approaching retirement age. While he is pressing a worker's compensation suit for a bad knee, he secretly works for his nemesis, Carl, and flirts with Carl's young wife Toby. Sully's long- forgott...
  Director of the film

   1994

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  5.2
  Billy Bathgate
  In this film version of E. L. Doctorow's Billy Bathgate, Loren Dean plays the title character, a street-smart kid who inveigles his way into the confidence of 1930s gangster Dutch Schultz (Dustin Hoffman). Billy is ordered to look...
  Director of the film

   1991

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  5.5
  Nadine
  Vernon and Nadine Hightower are a couple headed for a divorce, but when Nadine becomes a suspect in the murder of a photographer, the two decide to team up and uncover the real killer--before he gets to Nadine.
  Director of the film

   1987

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  7.2
  Places in the Heart
  Set during the Great Depression in Waxachie, Texas, director Robert Benton's hometown, PLACES IN THE HEART stars Sally Field as Edna Spalding. After her husband is accidentally shot and killed by a drunk, Edna, the mother of two, ...
  Director of the film

   1984

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  5.8
  Still of the Night
  George Bynum, a patient of Manhattan psychiatrist Dr. Sam Rice (Roy Scheider), is brutally murdered. Soon afterward, Dr. Rice is visited by Bynum's co-worker and mistress Brooke Reynolds (Meryl Streep) and by the investigating off...
  Director of the film

   1982

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  7.9
  Kramer vs. Kramer
  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 ...
  Director of the film

   1979

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  6.8
  The Late Show
  A financially strained, aging private detective named Ira Wells isn't a well man and is barely active in the business. He is a loner who doesn't much care for company or small talk. When his ex-partner Harry Regan, however, shows ...
  Director of the film

   1977

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  6.0
  Bad Company
  A genteel Northerner during the Civil War (Barry Brown) is robbed by scalawag Jeff Bridges--and winds up teaming up with him. Together, they become a criminal duo (although with one member more reluctant than the other) in this en...
  Director of the film

   1972