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Robert Benton
Robert Douglas Benton (born September 29, 1932) is an American screenwriter and film director.
Benton was born in Waxahachie, Texas, the son of Dorothy (née Spaulding) and Ellery Douglass Benton, a telephone company employee. He attended the University of Texas and Columbia University. Benton has...
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Kramer vs. Kramer
Kramer vs. Kramer is a 1979 film adapted by Robert Benton from the novel by Avery Corman, and directed by Benton. The film tells the story of a married couple's divorce and its impact on everyone involved, including the couple's young son. It...
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- 1979
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- 105 min (63 hs )
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Places in the Heart
Places in the Heart is a 1984 drama film that tells the story of a Texas widow who tries to keep her farm together with the help of a blind man and an African-American man. It stars Sally Field, Lindsay Crouse, Ed Harris, Amy Madigan, John Malkovich...
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- Sep 21, 1984
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- 112 min (67.2 hs )
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Nobody's Fool
Nobody's Fool is a 1994 comedy-drama film based on the 1993 novel of the same name by Richard Russo. It stars Paul Newman, Jessica Tandy, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, Dylan Walsh, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Gene Saks, Josef Sommer, Philip Seymour...
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- Dec 23, 1994
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- 110 min (66 hs )
Twilight
Twilight is a 1998 thriller/Neo-noir film directed by Robert Benton. It stars Paul Newman, Susan Sarandon, Gene Hackman, Reese Witherspoon, Stockard Channing, and James Garner. The screenplay was written by Benton and Richard Russo, and the original...
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- Mar 6, 1998
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- 94 min (56 hs )
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Billy Bathgate
Billy Bathgate is a 1991 crime film directed by Robert Benton, and starring Loren Dean as the titular character and Dustin Hoffman as Dutch Schultz. The film co-stars Nicole Kidman, Steven Hill, Steve Buscemi, and Bruce Willis. It is based on the...
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- 1991
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- 106 min (63.6 hs )
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Bad Company
Bad Company is a 1972 American Western film directed by Robert Benton, who also co-wrote the film with David Newman. It stars Barry Brown and Jeff Bridges as two of a group of young men that flee the draft during the American Civil War to seek their...
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- 1972
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- 93 min (56 hs )
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The Feast of Love
Feast of Love is a 2007 romance film directed by Robert Benton, starring Morgan Freeman and Greg Kinnear. The cast-ensemble drama, based on the novel of the same name by Charles Baxter, was first released on September 28, 2007, in the United States...
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- Sep 28, 2007
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- 102 min (61.2 hs )
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Still of the Night
Still of the Night is a 1982 psychological thriller film, directed by Robert Benton and written by Benton and David Newman. It features Roy Scheider, Meryl Streep, and Jessica Tandy. Scheider plays a psychiatrist who falls in love with a woman ...
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- Nov 19, 1982
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- 93 min (56 hs )
Nadine
Nadine is a 1987 comedy film about a woman living in 1950s Texas who inveigles her ex-husband into helping her break into a photographer's studio to retrieve embarrassing cheesecake pictures. Instead he gets his hands on advance plans for a highway...
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- 78 min (47 hs )
The Human Stain
The Human Stain is a 2003 American drama film directed by Robert Benton. The screenplay by Nicholas Meyer is based on the 2000 novel of the same name by Philip Roth.
In the late 1990s, writer Nathan Zuckerman has settled in a lakeside New England...
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- Aug 29, 2003
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- 106 min (63.6 hs )
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The Late Show
The Late Show is a 1977 comedy, neo-noir, romance, mystery film written and directed by Robert Benton and produced by Robert Altman. The film stars Art Carney, Lily Tomlin, Bill Macy, Eugene Roche, and Joanna Cassidy. The film follows an aging...
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- Aug 12, 1977
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- 100 min (60 hs )
