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Robert Benton
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Robert Benton

American screenwriter and film director
September 29, 1932 (92 years old)
U.S. 2007. Mores drama by Robert Benton with Morgan Freeman, Greg Kinnear, Alexa Davalos. In Portland, a melancholic teacher follows with interest the emotional disputes of the people in his neighborhood.
Runtime: 102 min.
U.S. 2005. Police comedy by Harold Ramis with John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, Connie Nielsen. On Christmas Eve, a lawyer and his accomplice steal a large sum of money from a mob boss.
Runtime: 88 min.
U.S. 2003. Psychological drama by Robert Benton with Anthony Hopkins, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris. A 71-year-old former literature professor begins a passionate relationship with a young female janitor who is damaged by life.
Runtime: 106 min.
U.S. 1997. Crime drama by Robert Benton with Paul Newman, Susan Sarandon, Gene Hackman.
Runtime: 94 min.
U.S. 1994. Psychological drama by Robert Benton with Paul Newman, Jessica Tandy, Melanie Griffith. A carefree sixty-year-old man gradually becomes aware of his responsibilities when his son, whom he barely knows, returns to town.
Runtime: 110 min.
U.S. 1991. Crime drama by Robert Benton with Dustin Hoffman, Loren Dean, Nicole Kidman. In 1935, in New York, a young man born of impoverished parents joins a gang whose leader he admires.
Runtime: 108 min.
U.S. 1987. Police comedy by Robert Benton with Kim Basinger, Jeff Bridges, Rip Torn. A young woman and her ex-husband run afoul of a crooked businessperson while trying to recover compromising photos.
Runtime: 83 min.
U.S. 1984. Drama by Robert Benton with Sally Field, Danny Glover, John Malkovich. The tribulations of a young widow in Texas in the 1930s.
Runtime: 110 min.
U.S. 1982. Crime drama by Robert Benton with Roy Scheider, Meryl Streep, Sara Botsford. A psychiatrist suspects a mysterious young woman of the murder of one of his patients.
Runtime: 91 min.
U.S. 1979. Psychological drama by Robert Benton with Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Justin Henry.
Runtime: 105 min.
U.S. 1978. Science-fiction by Richard Donner with Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Margot Kidder. A child from another planet with extraordinary powers becomes a vigilante.
Runtime: 143 min.
U.S. 1976. Crime drama by Robert Benton with Art Carney, Lily Tomlin, Bill Macy. A retired private investigator discovers a connection between a missing cat and the murder of a former associate.
Runtime: 93 min.
U.S. 1972. Comedy by Peter Bogdanovich with Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Madeline Kahn. A musicologist is disturbed by an eccentric young girl.
Runtime: 94 min.
U.S. 1972. Western by Robert Benton with Jeff Bridges, Barry Brown, Jim Davis. During the Civil War, a young man from a good family flees to the West to escape the draft and joins a gang of thieves.
Runtime: 91 min.
U.S. 1970. Western by Joseph L. Mankiewicz with Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda, Hume Cronyn. A prisoner takes advantage of a new prison warden's liberal approach to set up an escape plan.
Runtime: 126 min.
U.S. 1967. Crime drama by Arthur Penn with Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard. The adventurous criminal life of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, a famous bank robbing couple during the Depression in the United States.
Runtime: 111 min.

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