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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.
- (8.5K)
- Drama, Romance
- Martin Ritt
- 1990-02-09
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 her...
- (17)
- Martin Ritt
- PG-13
- Jane Fonda
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.
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.
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.
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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.
