Jane Fonda
Iris Estelle King
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- PG-131990 · Romance · 1h 44m
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.
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- Drama, Romance
- Martin Ritt
- 1990-02-09
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 . The original music score is composed by John Williams and the cinematography is by Donald McAlpine.
Iris (Jane Fonda) has a rough go of it after the death of her husband. Though still grieving, she needs to support her dysfunctional family and so she lands a job at a bakery. Things start to look ...
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- Martin Ritt
- PG-13
- Jane Fonda
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. 319 IMDb 6.3 1 h 44 min 1990. X-Ray PG-13. Romance · Drama · Passionate. Freevee (with ads) More purchase. options.
Iris proceeds to teach Stanley her own version of hooked-on-phonics (another early 1990s obsession), and suddenly Stanley can fluently read a highly technical car repair manual and composting instructions (in a scene redolent of My Fair Lady—by Jove, he’s got it!).The film is very loosely based on a Pat Barker novel, Union Street, about a ...
- Martin Ritt, Patrick Palmer
- Jane Fonda
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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 ...
IMDb provides the full list of cast and crew members for the 1990 romantic comedy film Stanley & Iris, starring Jane Fonda and Robert De Niro. See the names, roles, and credits of the director, writers, producers, composers, and more.
