Direction: Robert Benton

Direction Robert Benton

Cast Dustin Hoffman · Meryl Streep · Jane Alexander · JoBeth Williams

Plot When dutiful wife and mother Joanna (Meryl Streep) decides to leave Ted (Dustin Hoffman), an advertising executive, she also leaves him with the responsibility of caring for their young son,...

Direction Robert Benton

Cast Sally Field · Lindsay Crouse · Ed Harris · Danny Glover

Plot Set during the Great Depression in Waxachie, Texas, director Robert Benton's hometown, PLACES IN THE HEART stars Sally Field as Edna Spalding. After her husband is accidentally shot and killed...

Direction Robert Benton

Cast Paul Newman · Jessica Tandy · Bruce Willis · Melanie Griffith

Plot Sully is a rascally ne'er-do-well approaching retirement age. While he is pressing a worker's compensation suit for a bad knee, he secretly works for his nemesis, Carl, and flirts with...

Direction Robert Benton

Cast Paul Newman · Susan Sarandon · Gene Hackman · James Garner

Direction Robert Benton

Cast Jeff Bridges · Barry Brown · John Savage · Ed Lauter

Plot A genteel Northerner during the Civil War (Barry Brown) is robbed by scalawag Jeff Bridges--and winds up teaming up with him. Together, they become a criminal duo (although with one...

Direction Robert Benton

Cast Art Carney · Lily Tomlin · Bill Macy · Eugene Roche

Plot A financially strained, aging private detective named Ira Wells isn't a well man and is barely active in the business. He is a loner who doesn't much care for company...

Direction Robert Benton

Cast Morgan Freeman · Greg Kinnear · Selma Blair · Radha Mitchell

Plot A meditation on love and its various incarnations, set within a community of friends in Oregon, and is described as an exploration of the magical, mysterious and sometimes painful incarnations...

Direction Robert Benton

Cast Dustin Hoffman · Loren Dean · Nicole Kidman · Steven Hill

Direction Robert Benton

Cast Roy Scheider · Meryl Streep · Jessica Tandy · Joe Grifasi

Plot George Bynum, a patient of Manhattan psychiatrist Dr. Sam Rice (Roy Scheider), is brutally murdered. Soon afterward, Dr. Rice is visited by Bynum's co-worker and mistress Brooke Reynolds (Meryl Streep)...

Direction Robert Benton

Cast Anthony Hopkins · Nicole Kidman · Ed Harris · Gary Sinise

Plot Coleman Silk (Anthony Hopkins) is a respected light-skinned African-American professor at a prestigious New England college who has kept his true racial identity a secret for the last fifty years....

Direction Robert Benton

Cast Kim Basinger · Jeff Bridges · Rip Torn · Gwen Verdon

Plot Vernon and Nadine Hightower are a couple headed for a divorce, but when Nadine becomes a suspect in the murder of a photographer, the two decide to team up and...