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Dustin Hoffman has never given a better performance. It is a role stripped down to the raw nerve endings, and incredible feat of winning audience sympathy.

Director Robert Benton, on only his third film, does a spectacular job of piling powerful scene upon powerful scene. The result is a succession of one-two punches that repeatedly knock the wind out of us.

The movies have given us scores of courtroom dramas; Kramer vs. Kramer is one of the few that draw real blood.

In writer-director Robert Benton's hands, it becomes something more: a coruscating tragedy, an agonizing search for values, and a story that's as convincing a testimony to the drama of ordinary lives as any I know.

This is a rare and moving film about marriage, divorce, child custody, and changing sex roles. It is also a film above love.