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Kramer vs. Kramer

CastDustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Justin Henry, Jane Alexander, Howard Duff, George Coe, JoBeth Williams, Joe Seneca, Bill Moor, Howland Chamberlain
Year released1979
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Ad executive Ted tells his wife Joanna, "You know Jack Edwards over in accounting. He committed suicide."
Joanna: "If you do, I swear, one day next week, maybe next year, I don't know, I'll go right out the window." (0:05)

Ted tells his boss Jim, "But I must admit in the last two, three weeks, maybe couple of months, since we've been going crazy with this account I've been remiss..."
"I'm going crazy." (0:17)

Jim tells Ted, "I'm getting very, very nervous here."
"I'm getting very nervous." (0:34)

His coworker Phyllis tells Ted, "It's just that all these morons are violating the FTC regulations..." (0:44)

His friend Margaret tells Ted, referring to her French professor, "I find out..."
"... he's deep in analysis..." (0:47)

Joanna tells Ted, "I got myself a therapist..." (0:54) 

Attorney John tells Ted, "Well, first, Mr. Kramer, there's no such thing as an open and shut case where custody is involved."
Ted: "But she signed over custody."
John: "... if you're really certain you wanna retain custody of your child..." (0:56)

Ted asks Jim, "You know that my wife is, is fighting me for custody?" (1:00)

John tells Ted, "We don't have a hope in hell of winning a custody hearing if you're out of work." (1:01)

John, referring to Joanna, "Look Ted I don't honestly think she'd go to the trouble of suing for custody of the child if she's going to kidnap him."
Ted, "She told me that she's seeing a shrink, a psychiatrist or something." (1:10)

Joanna, on the witness stand: "I had come to have almost no self-esteem... I realized after getting into therapy that I wasn't such a terrible person."
Attorney: "Your honor I would like to submit in evidence a report by Mrs. Kramer's therapist Dr. Eleanor Freedman."
"Mrs. Kramer, can you tell the court why you are asking for custody?"
John asks Joanna, referring to Ted: "In all that time did your husband ever strike you or physically abuse you in any way?"
"Did he ever strike or physically abuse his child in any way?"
"Would you describe your husband as an alcoholic?"
"A heavy drinker?" (1:16)

John reads to Ted: "Ordered... and decreed that the petitioner be awarded custody of the minor child..." (1:34)

Reference in I Am Sam.

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