Robert Benton

Robert Benton

Date of Birth: 29 Sep 1932

Country: USA

Total Credits at Criticker: 3 (Actor), 11 (Director), 13 (Writer)

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    Bonnie and Clyde
    Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway are the legendary Depression-era bandits and lovers in this landmark film that won two Academy Awards and triggered a revolution in screen violence. (Warner Bros.)
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    Superman: The Movie
    An adventure re-told, spanning the Man of Steel's life from his Krypton infancy and Midwest boyhood to his career as Daily Planet reporter Clark Kent (Reeve) and through his titanic struggle with archnemesis Lex Luthor (Hackman). (Warner Bros.)
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    The Ice Harvest
    A wickedly funny thriller about thick thieves and thin ice. (Focus Features)
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    What\
    Two researchers have come to San Francisco to compete for a research grant in Music. One seems a bit distracted... (imdb)
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    Kramer vs. Kramer
    A just divorced man must learn to care for his son on his own, and then must fight in court to keep custody of him. (imdb)
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    Still of the Night
    A Manhattan psychiatrist probes a patient's murder and falls for the victim's mysterious mistress.
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    Nobody\
    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 Carl's young wife Toby. Sully's long- forgotten son and family have moved back to town, so Sully faces unfamiliar family responsibilities. Meanwhile, Sully's landlady's banker son plots to push through a new development and evict Sully from his mother's life. (imdb)
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    Places in the Heart
    Edna Spalding finds herself alone and broke on a small farm in the midst of the Great Depression when her husband the Sheriff is killed in an accident. A wandering black man, Moses, helps her to plant cotten to try and keep her farm and her kids together. She also takes on a blind border, Mr. Will, who lost his sight in the first World War. She must endure storms and harsh labor to try and make her mortage payment on time. (imdb)
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    Bad Company
    A group of naive boys find that life as desperadoes in the west is more serious that they understood when they embark on abortive careers in bushwhacking. Violence, betrayal, sombre colours and a Beckettsian whimsy mark this ironic western. (imdb)
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    The Late Show
    Art Carney is the aging gumshoe helped (or hindered) by ditzy sidekick Lily Tomlin in pursuing a former partner's killer. (MoviesUnlimited.com)
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    Twilight
    A retired ex-cop and private detective (Newman) who lives with a rich actor (Hackman) who is dying from cancer and his actress wife (Sarandon) gets mixed up in murder when he is asked to deliver blackmail money. He walks into a 20 year old case involving the mysterious disappearance of the actress's former husband. James Garner appears as another ex-cop who also does occasional errands for the couple. (imdb)
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    There Was a Crooked Man...
    Charm, intelligence and succes in criminal career doesn't prevent Paris Pitman Jr. to start doing ten years in territory prison. However, those years should pass quickly because of an enormous loot previously stashed away. New idealistic warden would only make Pitman think of getting his fortyne even sooner. (imdb)
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    Nadine
    In 1950s Texas, a woman trying to recover sexy photos of herself and divorce her husband witnesses a murder and uncovers corrupt land dealings.
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