Martin Ritt
Director
Stanley & Iris (1990)
An illiterate cook at a company cafeteria tries for the attention of a newly widowed woman. As they get to know one another, she discovers his inability to read. When he is fired, she takes on trying to teach him to read in her kitchen each night.
Keywords: tmdb.education, tmdb.widow, tmdb.bakery, tmdb.love, tmdb.tutor, mdblist.has-trailer, imdb.character-names-as-title + 43 more, imdb.forenames-as-title, imdb.illiterate-man, imdb.short-order-cook, imdb.purse-snatcher, imdb.ironing, imdb.two-on-a-bike, imdb.reference-to-led-zeppelin, imdb.nursery, imdb.punching-a-time-clock, imdb.reading-a-letter-aloud, imdb.voice-over-letter, imdb.tutoring, imdb.bakery-worker, imdb.map, imdb.punctuation-in-title, imdb.ampersand-in-title, imdb.three-word-title, imdb.based-on-novel, imdb.fired-from-a-job, imdb.coworker-coworker-relationship, imdb.car, imdb.father-son-relationship, imdb.inventor, imdb.airport, imdb.love, imdb.cook, imdb.widow, imdb.bakery, imdb.education, imdb.working-class, imdb.library, imdb.bus, imdb.pregnancy, imdb.baby, imdb.unemployment, imdb.illiteracy, imdb.death-of-father, mdblist.rotten, imdb.slapped-in-the-face, mdblist.ext.2k-blu-ray, imdb.adult-learns-to-read, soundmix.dolby-stereo, aspectratio.2-39-1
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Production Companies: Star Partners II Ltd., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Lantana
Country: United States
Production Country:
United States
Languages:
English
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104 min
Feb. 9, 1990
Released
$23,000,000
$5,820,015
PG-13 / 13+