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Stanley & Iris is a 1990 American romantic drama film directed by Martin Ritt and starring Jane Fonda and Robert De Niro. The screenplay by Harriet Frank, Jr. and Irving Ravetch is loosely based on the 1982 novel Union Street by Pat Barker .
Feb 9, 1990 · Stanley & Iris: Directed by Martin Ritt. With Jane Fonda, Robert De Niro, Swoosie Kurtz, Martha Plimpton. A struggling widow falls in love with an illiterate short-order cook whom she teaches to read and write in her kitchen each night.
Things start to look up when the kindhearted Stanley (Robert De Niro), a cook in the bakery, comes to her aid after she is mugged. When Iris realizes that Stanley cannot read, she makes it...
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Stanley & Iris. Jane Fonda and Robert De Niro star in a touching story of two people who escape their own private prisons -- he can't read, she's still grieving for her dead husband -- to explore a tender relationship.
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.
Drama about working women and their lives in a factory, centering around the romance between a baker who falls in love with an illiterate man.
Feb 9, 1990 · Somehow the novel has been transformed into a story of a New England widow named Iris (Fonda) who frosts cakes to support her two children, played by Martha Plimpton and Harley Cross. As for ...
