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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.
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.
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. 320 IMDb 6.3 1 h 44 min 1990. X-Ray PG-13.
Stanley and Iris Monster-in-Law. Martin Ritt’s Stanley and Iris (1990) reunited the directing and screenwriting team (Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Jr) that had brought a collection of well-regarded socially conscious films, including Hud (1963) and Norma Rae (1979), to the screen.
Stanley & Iris. 1990 · 1 hr 45 min. PG-13. Drama · Romance. He can't read; she's still grieving her dead husband. Together, they will escape their own private prisons to explore a tender relationship. Subtitles: English. Starring: Jane Fonda Robert De Niro Swoosie Kurtz Martha Plimpton Harley Cross. Directed by: Martin Ritt.
Iris (Jane Fonda), a working-class mother and widow, is trapped in a job squirting goo on cookies in a bakery, while supporting a pregnant teenager, an abused sister and a grieving son. Then...
He's a shy, illiterate short-order cook who's never taken a chance at love. She's a newly widowed factory worker who's vowed to never love again. But as their friendship slowly blossoms and Iris helps Stanley learn to read, his strong yet gentle kindness helps mend her broken heart.
