Stanley & Iris

Feb 9, 1990

1h 44m

★ 6.5

Some people need love spelled out for them.

Overview

An illiterate cook at a company cafeteria tries for the attention of a newly widowed woman. As they get to know one another, she discovers his inability to read. When he is fired, she takes on trying to teach him to read in her kitchen each night.

Genres

Drama

Romance

Production Companies

Star Partners II

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Lantana Productions

Stanley & Iris Trailers

Cast

Iris King

Jane Fonda

Stanley Cox

Robert De Niro

Sharon

Swoosie Kurtz

Kelly King

Martha Plimpton

Joe

Jamey Sheridan

Leonides Cox

Feodor Chaliapin Jr.

Elaine

Zohra Lampert

Bertha

Loretta Devine

Bernice

Kathy Kinney

Richard King

Harley Cross

Belinda

Julie Garfield

Melissa

Karen Ludwig

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