Places in the Heart (1984) more movies like this

directed by Robert Benton
featuring Sally Field, Lindsay Crouse, Ed Harris, Amy Madigan, John Malkovich, Danny Glover

Of the three "mortgage on the farm" films of 1984 (Country and The River were the other two), Places in the Heart is the only one set during the Depression. After her husband is killed, Sally Field is forced to take over the debt-ridden Texas family farm herself. Though slightly embittered by the fact that a black man was responsible for her ...

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Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) more movies like this

directed by Robert Benton
featuring Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Justin Henry, Jane Alexander, Howard Duff, JoBeth Williams

Robert Benton's Oscar-winning adaptation of Avery Corman's bestseller takes on contemporary problems of divorce and shifting gender roles, as a jilted husband learns how to be a nurturing father. Manhattan housewife Joanna Kramer (Meryl Streep) walks out on her workaholic ad man husband Ted (Dustin Hoffman), leaving their young son Billy (Justin ...

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Nobody's Fool (1994) more movies like this

directed by Robert Benton
featuring Paul Newman, Jessica Tandy, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, Dylan Walsh

Paul Newman earned an Oscar nomination (and won citations from the New York Film Critics Circle and the Berlin International Film Festival) for his performance in this well-drawn comedy-drama. Sully (Newman) is a 60-year-old man who emotionally seems to have never quite emerged from adolescence; scraping by on part-time work in construction, Sully ...

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The Human Stain (2003) more movies like this

directed by Robert Benton
featuring Anthony Hopkins, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris, Gary Sinise, Wentworth Miller

For his first film since 1998's Twilight, acclaimed director Robert Benton helmed this tense drama written by Fatal Attraction co-scribe Nicholas Meyer and based on the novel of the same name by Philip Roth. Set in the late '90s at the height of the Clinton sex-scandal, The Human Stain stars Anthony Hopkins as Coleman Silk, a respected professor ...

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Billy Bathgate (1991) more movies like this

directed by Robert Benton
featuring Dustin Hoffman, Nicole Kidman, Loren Dean, Bruce Willis, Steven Hill

In this film version of E. L. Doctorow's Billy Bathgate, Loren Dean plays the title character, a street-smart kid who inveigles his way into the confidence of 1930s gangster Dutch Schultz (Dustin Hoffman). Billy is ordered to look after Schultz' new moll, Drew Preston (Nicole Kidman), while Dutch fends off tax evasion charges and such up-and ...

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Twilight (1998) more movies like this

directed by Robert Benton
featuring Paul Newman, Susan Sarandon, Gene Hackman, Reese Witherspoon, Stockard Channing

The Nobody's Fool (1994) team of Paul Newman, director Robert Benton, and scripter Richard Russo reassembled for this L.A. detective drama, beginning with a Puerto Vallarta prologue showing private eye Harry Ross (Newman) accidentally shot by 17-year-old Mel Ames (Reese Witherspoon) during his efforts to get her to return home. Two years later, ...

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Nadine (1987) more movies like this

directed by Robert Benton
featuring Jeff Bridges, Kim Basinger, Rip Torn, Gwen Verdon, Glenne Headly

A woman trying to keep a momentary indiscretion quiet finds herself in more trouble than she ever imagined in this comedy written and directed by Robert Benton. Nadine Hightower (Kim Basinger), who is significantly more beautiful than intelligent, is fast-talked into posing for some cheesecake pictures by sleazy photographer Raymond Escobar (Jerry ...

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Still of the Night (1982) more movies like this

directed by Robert Benton
featuring Roy Scheider, Meryl Streep, Jessica Tandy, Joe Grifasi, Sara Botsford

In Still of the Night, a mystery thriller written and directed by Robert Benton, a psychiatrist falls in love with a woman who is suspected of the murder of one of his patients. Dr. Sam Rice (Roy Scheider) is treating a married museum curator. When the man is killed, Sam is visited by his dead patient's mistress and co-worker Brooke Reynolds ...

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The Late Show (1977) more movies like this

directed by Robert Benton
featuring Art Carney, Lily Tomlin, Bill Macy, Eugene Roche, Joanna Cassidy

Even though he barely makes enough money to cover his expenses and finds divorce cases (his bread and butter) unsavory, aging detective Ira Wells (Art Carney) is determined to stay active and to retain some amount of self-respect. When his partner Harry Regan (Howard Duff) is killed while on assignment, Ira agrees to take on his current case, ...

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Bad Company (1972) more movies like this

directed by Robert Benton
featuring John Boyd

Set during the Civil War, Bad Company stars Barry Brown as a Northern boy, Drew Dixon, who heads West to avoid getting drafted. He falls under the spell of Jake Rumsey (Jeff Bridges), an easygoing young con artist. Drew joins Jake's gang of boy bandits, who live by their wits and try to avoid confrontation with adult criminals like Big Joe (David ...

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Feast of Love (2007) more movies like this

directed by Robert Benton
featuring Morgan Freeman, Greg Kinnear, Radha Mitchell, Billy Burke, Selma Blair

A group of friends living in suburban Oregon come into contact with a sensual free spirit named Chloe (Alexa Davalos), who changes their outlook on life in the most unexpected of ways in this ensemble drama adapted from the acclaimed novel by author Charles Baxter. As college professor and writer Harry Stevenson (Morgan Freeman) sits quietly in ...

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