Using the kitchen table as a classroom, their nightly lessons cause a deep, authentic romance to slowly blossom. ✨ Critical & Cultural Significance STANLEY & IRIS (1990) | Official Trailer | Amazon MGM
Robert De Niro as Stanley Cox and Jane Fonda as Iris King Stanley & Iris
Pushed into poverty and forced to put his aging father in a low-end home, Stanley confronts his pride and asks Iris to teach him how to read and write. Using the kitchen table as a classroom, their
Iris notices peculiar behaviors from Stanley and realizes he is completely illiterate. After she innocently mentions this to his boss, Stanley is promptly fired over safety and liability concerns. After she innocently mentions this to his boss,
A struggling widow falls in love with an illiterate short-order cook whom she teaches to read and write in her kitchen each night. YouTube·Amazon MGM Studios Stanley & Iris (1990) - You Talkin' To Me?
Very loosely adapted from Pat Barker’s 1982 novel Union Street