Stanley & Iris (Letters) (1990)

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Directed by

Martin Ritt

Starring (View all)

Jane Fonda
Iris King

Robert De Niro
Stanley Cox

Swoosie Kurtz
Sharon

Martha Plimpton
Kelly

Harley Cross
Richard

Jamey Sheridan
Joe

Feodor Chaliapin Jr.
Leonides Cox

Zohra Lampert
Elaine

Written by (View all)

Pat Barker
(novel Union Street)

Harriet Frank Jr.
(screenplay)

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An average movie

10 years, 6 months ago at Jul 22 7:34

johanlefourbe

For almost 20 years, I have been a huge fan of Robert De Niro’s work, I have been watching obsessively almost all his movies (I have managed to watch already 70 of his movies so far which is not that bad, I believe). Anyway, at the beginning of the 90’s, his career was still pretty good (at least, if you compare it to the poor movies he is making nowadays) but this movie was not one of his bes... read more

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A struggling widow falls in love with an illiterate short-order cook whom she teaches to read and write in her kitchen each night.

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Pop Culture Phenomenon Films: 90’s (1929 movies items)

" Based on the novel “Union Street” by Pat Barker, Stanley Cox is an illiterate short-order cook who has never taken a chance at love. Iris King is a newly widowed factory worker who has vowed never to love again. Still grieving eight months after her husband's death, she lives from paycheck to paycheck and raises two children. To make ends meet, she rents out space to her sister and brother-in-law who have financial and marital problems as well. Her daughter seeks escape through the com"