I have mixed feelings about Kramer vs. Kramer. Negative: it has my least favorite trope of using a trial as the denouement of a film that doesn’t necessarily need it considering the conclusion, but because it is a possibility in such a story, I can let it go. Also at this point, it is a bit dated and would only hit Lifetime movie status. Pros: focuses sympathetically on issues facing single parents, shows that men should and are invested in their kids and shouldn’t impose a vision of marriage on their wives, but deal with relationship as individuals. Draw: gender politics that it reinforces. Something is mentally wrong if mother is not willing to take care of her child before herself or by needing a break has forever sacrificed the title of mother, sexual double standard, glorifies a man for doing what any parent should do as if it is Herculean when a man does it, but the acceptable standard for women, which I am also guilty of. In the end, I’m willing to give it a thumbs up because of one of the final scenes where the father & son prepare breakfast silently. I always wished that American films from the seventies have less shouting, monologues and exclamations & favored the French approach of showing daily life.