How much courage does it take to walk out on your kid?
Movies are full of stories about dead-beat men doing their wives/girlfriends wrong and having said woman overcome that adversity in a moving way. This is as it should be because many men are complete dogs and don't deserve their beautiful companion. Still, it took a lot of guts to tell the story of a man scorned, and at the height of the female empowerment movement.
Hopefully I don't offend anybody with this take, but maybe it is because I am a father who dearly loves his daughter. Meryl Streep portrays Joanna Kramer as one of the most dastardly villians to ever grace the silver screen. Ted Kramer (portrayed once again by the amazing Dustin Hoffman, I think he has a month-worth of movies on this blog) certainly had his flaws, but the things that this woman put him through were heartless, selfish, and utterly evil. I think it was Blink-182 who said it best: "Stay together for the kids".
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