I'm Leaving You  

Eh.

Absolutely.

Agreed

The name of the movie would be the most helpful..

Kramer vs. Kramer is the name of the movie?

I dont think I've ever seen her that young. Wow.

I know, right?!? She’s beautiful! Meryl has been one of my favorite actresses since I was a little girl. 💜

Such fine features

It’s her nose I would assume

It's a subtle, dignified beauty. Almost statuesque.

That's my favorite part/acting choice in the scene. So fluid and in the moment. Letting go of the suitcase, the only things she was talking with her, then slipping off the ring. Truly leaving with only the clothes she has own and what she started with $$ in their union. Brave.

Also it showed he hurt her hand without regard

​@@juliehealingleaf6211it wasn't truly to hurt her though, it was out of sheer panic, he didn't even understand what was going on and really didn't want his wife to leave him.

She hurt her son with no regard

@@duanealbers4985 No one thinks of that.

I think all women plan leaving men out. But the grass isn’t always greener on the other side. My ex left me for another guy and all that happened was her losing his baby and him leaving her for another. Karma

Powerful visual

Your mom is a champion and now you will never get stuck with a loser because she taught you from an early age that a loser is worth crap!! ❤

@@lupitaarroyo best to leave an abuser but take the kids with you. Someone who abuses adults will always abuse children and pets.

@@airt698 mostly it is men who do the leaving or at least have the affair.

Such a great movie

Been there done that.

That part hits hard. She adjusted calculated the items in the suitcase, adjusts her plan, and moves forward in a matter of seconds. She wanted at least those things but understood that was too much to ask.

I'm with her. I'm done too

DONE

Meryl Streep is such an excellent actress that she makes you forget that she is acting.

Đ⁷š Dustin Hoffman is an amazing actor

Goddess

Why is she ugly to you now? Shame on you

Yep, she's gorgeous ✨

Now they are overwrought with hyper-manic editing and non-stop musical scores to remind you that you’re supposed to be feeling things.

@@marley92282 I think Netflix has destroyed film and TV! They are producing film worse than hallmark level right now. The Nicole Kidman/Zac Efron romance was unwatchable

People keep saying that movies were great back in the day. The movies are great today it's just harder to come up with new ideas especially when they ate but done already

I was thinking about this movie today and all of a sudden, this just appears in my feed. Weird.

😄 Okay, old one. 😄

He was not an abusive husband. He was a workalcoholic to provide for their family so she could be a stay at home mother. If he was an abusive husband she would not have been so entrusting to place their son's wellbeing into his care.

​@Prometheuspredator men kill women for turning them down fir dates

@@Prometheuspredator have you not watched any episode of Forensic files or 48 hours ever? A lot of women have died trying to leave their husbands that don’t show signs.

@@supersavingswithjennifer2036It’s so true

@@supersavingswithjennifer2036yawn

I didn’t get that from this scene

@@niccolea2086 You didn't? Hmm. Have you seen the movie?

U are correct. Her character felt stuck & trapped as a wife/mother. She was like in fight or flight mode 💯

​@@onyxtopaz2759what did the husband do thou?

@@YFL.111 He was emotionally unavailable. Too caught up in work. It was revealed in court proceedings that she had given up her job to become a stay at home mom , even though she was highly qualified. She began to feel restless and unfulfilled. What divided opinions among cinema goers was they had a 6 year old son and she left him behind with his father. After she had settled down in her new life she filed for custody of the child, this after the child had gotten over the trauma of her leaving and had bonded with his father. The movie centered around the custody case hence the name “Kramer vs. Kramer”.

I’m so sorry that happened to you. That must have been a terrifying experience.

Interesting you hated your mother but not your father. One left you with another adult. The other left you with a dog.

Thats terrible… :( She must have never thought ur dad would leave too! How long until they came back?

@@cowslane1 She did not say that.

My heart goes for you ,feeling so sad for that toddler you ,Hoping you are a brave lady now

I do not remember ever seeing two films back to back or a place called Berni inn. People went to a restaurant once a year if they were lucky. Are you sure you weren’t in America?

@@scarbain the UK. not America.

I got a FREE ticket to see The Colour Purple… the reverse of the ticket was The Goonies! What a time to be alive. We saw each film back-to-back… it was a really popular thing back then… it is around forty years ago though! I’d buy that for a dollar (£)🤣! UK cinema days!😂

Aww, that's such a great. Thank you for sharing. 🖤

Thank you for sharing that. Lol, I have no friends, so it made me feel good. I have never heard of the movie.❤

i wish my parents got divorced.divorce is sometimes blessing for kids even when they dont realise it

@@gulalatas9163so true. There is this saying “better a good divorce than a bad marriage”.

@@LayllasLocker yep..sometimes divorce saves kids instead of messing them up

Absolutely left a mark. Kramer vs. Kramer. The names meant a terrible time for everyone. Couldn't hear the name without thinking "divorce."

​@@gulalatas9163 No matter which road it goes if the relationship is messed up everybody gets messed up anyway

Such a wonderful movie. That’s rich. It’s to marriage what “Psycho” is to bath time.

The son was brilliant too ❤

Extremely overrated movie. Maryl is a great actor but in this particular film she did nothing special for an Oscar

​Right, good actors but average boring scenario writing.

@@Methilde It's a simple slice-of-life story that was narratively popular in this era of U.S. cinema, so no BIG, FLOWERY scenes like you see today.

I did the same walked away with my clothes and my kids lost my home, car , jewellery personal possessions (photos etc ) zero bank accounts drove a borrowed car and what I could get in it …never went back never received a penny there after (from house sale maintenance ..anything ) to this day …but here I am eleven years later kids grown I made it 😉

She left her child behind too

Right??

When your done your done

yeah,,,but she regrets it by the end of the movie

But then she tries to get her son back after he's been through hell trying to figure out why Mommy left him, finally bonded irrevocably with Dad, and then she decides she can handle everything and comes in to upset the balance, it doesn't seem that selfless to me:(

I can't believe that is Meryl she's always been so beautiful I see,what is this movie called?

Kramer vs Kramer ​@@franceslarsen4037

She would have still gotten sick of him if he spent more time at home and less at work. In that case, she would have told him that he is not good provider and she meets someone that works more and earns more. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Kramer Vs Kramer

Especially when he just doesn’t get it! Here are my keys, pick up your laundry like she is clearly stating, “I do everything and I’m exhausted and I deserve love, respect and appreciation.

Do you think she’s attractive, I wasn’t sure you mentioned it? Lol

I agree. So unique. Like a beautiful painting

@@Dommymarano 😂

Couldn't have said it better myself.

I saw her on the Graham Norton show. I can't remember who was sitting beside her or the discussion. But, without hesitation, she turned to him, cupped his cheeks with her hands, and kissed him. Not a swift motion, but a 3 or 4 second kiss. He was red in the face, and the high school boy appeared with immense surprise His jaw dropped revealing a body paralyzed as if time stood still. She turned around swiftly and her cheeks were red. Yet, she had a mischievous look. Still today she is a classy revered woman. Who, in seconds jostled a man into a different continuum. Once an actress, always an actress.

Same, my friend, same

Same. And me too.

Me also… 😢

When I saw this as a 10 year old girl with parents divorcing...I was so disappointed in the figure Meryl portrayed. Why did she leave her kid like that??? But 40 years on, having been experiencing life's ups and downs... I forgive her, cause I totally understand. She had to find herself again. Her feelings, her dignity, her motherhood, her strength, her worth ... because she was in that deep hole that could tip you in the deep end. And that was not an emotional place to also take your kid with you while leaving the husband. Now I see it as a hard and painfull choice she had to make. And by doing that protecting herself AND MOST OF ALL HER PRECIOUS SON.❤❤❤❤❤

Me too. The hardheaded selfishness is unbelievable.

I have to say the directing too.

What's the name of this movie

@@JoyannPadmore Kramer vs. Kramer

​@@JoyannPadmore "Kramer vs Kramer"....😊, "Isa"

Men rarely do that. Usually women do. You don't say why he left?

​@@rgtunderworldrgt7773 That is bs and it is none of our business why. I hope they are all fine now.❤

You mean after she abandoned him?

​@@alexissmith8158Cheating in marriage is unjustifiable under any circumstance.

Oh you didn’t cry more at the movie than you did in real life?? How weird. You seem dramatic, just how you word things. The movie was sad, but need everyone on the internet to know you were MORE sad? OOoOooOooK…

I was too young to understand this movie, but I remember all the adults going nuts about what a huge impact this movie had.

Impeccably acted . Great movie ❤

What's the name of this movie please

@@JoyannPadmore Kramer v Kramer 1979

@@chateaupig826 thanks 🙃

She was a selfish self-centered dirtbag

That’s not courage. That’s selfishness. If she wanted out , she should gave gone about it the right way without traumatizing her whole family. Only a narcissist, self absorbed bitch leaves like that. She didn’t deserve to have her child back. She’s not a mother. Mothers don’t abandon their children!!

Yes, watch it again. I just did. It's a good movie...with different perspectives. You got her's, his, and the little boy's...then he becomes friends with the neighbor. She actually teaches him empathy & gives him the love his wife was hoping for.

Same. I haven’t seen this since it came out, I was a little then

What’s it called

"hold fast"! (1Thess.5 :21)

@@angel213fl My Mom sort of left. She went yo a Psychiatric hospital. We were told she died. One day about 9 months later, she stole us at night while Dad was shift work. Hadn't seen her for all those months.. We grabbed our bits of clothing quickly. She said we could choose our Dad or her, but she took all.of us regardless what we said. Off to bus ferry, then bus again. Went to a small dingy apartment. Another man was there. We'd never met him before. . It was a one bedroom suite. He became our " stepfather". They never married. Did I mention she was 8.5 months pregnant? We saw our biological Dad only once in 8 years. He hired a P.I. to find us. That's part of a long, very challenging childhood.

@@coolwater55 damn that's phukt up.

What's the movies name please?

@@mitrafereshteh it's in the video title.

He wasnt abusive! Have you even watched the movie?

​@@jtv_70THANK YOU.

A woman leaving doesn't automatically mean she was abused... I know it's just a movie, but if u jump the gun on this than you'll do it in real life

However the actor Dustin Hoffman actually slapped her on set....

Yeah behind the scenes. Has nothing to do with the actual story lol actors and characters are different people bro

My parents got divorced when I was 7, this was my favorite movie....😢

My parents refused to let us see it. Dad would do side work as security at the drive-in so he would screen what was fit for us kids.

I have avoided this film since it came out over 40 years ago. And now I’m divorced with a son. Should have watched it, maybe.

Same here.

As a child of divorce, it really shook me to see this movie.

Yes, I saw the interview where she said that. They kept filming & you can see the mark his slap left on her face when you watch the movie. It was Meryl’s first scene in her first movie. Hoffman was trying to rattle her, to put her off her game, to make himself look better. Well, it didn’t work, did it Dustin!

Yes, I saw the interview where she said that. They kept filming & you can see the mark his slap left on her face when you watch the movie. It was Meryl’s first scene in her first movie. Hoffman was trying to rattle her, to put her off her game, to make himself look better. Well, it didn’t work, did it Dustin!

@@marionmarino1616 Dustin really is a jerk. I remember seeing him once at LAX baggage. He really is short. lol

I wouldn’t be either. If I’m an actor, the other actors I’m acting with, and the director for that matter, should trust that I have my own methods and that I know what I’m doing and can get MYSELF into character.

So true. Women always slagging off other women parenting.

Great question. Really… that’s a frikkin’ great question. * we already know the answer Ta-dah… ding ding ding. DOUBLE STANDARD

That's not true.

lol good question

I love her reverse uno card... it's not you, it's me😂

When someone runs away from problems; instead of working through them, with growing as result; it usually is them being the problem.

yeah but in this case it was true. She was miserable with her life.

I'm so sorry. If you don't mind answering, were your siblings ever recovered?

If you feel comfortable, pls tell us about your siblings?

Your parents seem to have a dark sense of humor. Or just didn't think it through.

That's a weird thing to just drop and leave no follow-up... makes me think this was an odd bid for attention. Is it for a high/satisfaction of the likes and comments... I don't think I'll ever understand how ppl get off on stuff like that. Or am I totally reading this wrong and you write comments in a 10x the zoned out way I talk?

@@snow5962 you are right man ..but everyone has different personality ..

Yep, from the author in Out of Africa to the fashion editor in The Devil Wears Prada.

One of? Hmm. I'm pretty sure no-one could make a compelling case for anyone being better.

I have never understood ppl who leave for that reason solely.

I think you have misinterpreted the comments.

He was neglectful and did crush glasses in anger around her. Abuse starts out that way.

Emotional neglect IS abuse.

@@drugreen123 lol 😂

I’m embarrassed to say I can’t remember the name of the movie? I did see it but I can’t remember. Please do tell!

​@@joanrichter1891Kramer vs Kramer is the name of the movie.

Then she should have remained out of the picture

She was a self-centered dirtbag

She had no job and no money.

Agreed it's a great movie. But I don't admire her character like some people do, she is a classic example of the troubles that would plague our society a few years after. When you have children you must be ready it's not a game that doesn't mean you should stop improving yourself but there's somethings you must let go of and this goes for man and woman.

@@eugeniollamera771calling her a “classic example of troubles…that plague society” is misogynistic hateful ignorant nonsense

@C.Lord-lf6ss when you know you know

YET...so many women still change their last names to his😂😂😂😂this was established as ownership😂😂😂😂😂

Did you ever watch this movie?

@pennyc11 I wonder have you ever been married 🤔 do you have little ones 🤔 I think unless you walked in our shoes just like ANY situation ya gotta h a very a little empathy don't ya think ????????

Very well said and I agree so not tell them you are leaving make life easier on yourself and just go. You know when you know!

Thank you for pointing this out because it's so important. You can't tell them that you're going to leave, you have to just do it when you're ready. If you do, you can unfortunately have deadly consequences.

I had a masters degree and a high paying finance job and a credit card at a well known large retailer at the time. The ones that had Christmas displays and parades. I got married in 1978. My husband had just graduated and gotten a job leas than a month before. At that time, cards had one name on them and then you added names to your account that could use your card. When that person used your card the clerk would call upstairs and confirm the user was approved. We went down town to the main store to the service desk and I ask them to add my new husband to my card. They refused. They said that I needed to cancel my card and take out a new card in his name and add my name to HIS account. I politely refused. She said it was store policy. I ask her if she had a pair of scissors I could borrow. She handed me a pair. I cut up my card in front of her and said, if now that I'm married you think he owns me you are sadly mistaken. You tell your superiors that we will never have a credit card from you. During the whole encounter, my husband never said a word. As we left, he said, I've never been prouder of you. 46 years later, We've never had one of their credit cards and I never will. I still shop their occasionally and anytime one of the sales people try to get me to sign up for a card, I tell them my story. Young women are in disbelief. F U Famous Barr, now Macy's. I hold a grudge.

I think that ended in 1974, but you are correct

I agree, but in someways it’s become too lax when the problem was it was one-sided and unfair. A married couple are jointly responsible for any debts their spouse takes on. I have three female friends who are struggling to get out from under massive debts accumulated by their ex-husbands, which are legally 50% theirs. Edit: I’m sure some husbands have been financially damaged too by their spouses debts.

She gave them back

I had credit cards in his name that I was forbidden to use. Yep…I left him with 4 children I knew he was better equipped to raise than I. He always told me. I had a complete breakdown later but I made a life for myself without him giving me more than the down payment on a car. He’s now living in a high cost end of life situation. He’s in the free living area now. He will go to assisted living in the same location and get end of life care there, too. It cost him $1,000,000 to get in the door. I’m living in Senior low cost housing. We don’t have a pool or yoga classes or any kind of anything. The residents got together and took an empty room and invited everyone to come and do crafts there. Mornings. Afternoons and evenings. Two hour blocks. Meet people and do something creative. Some people go out and walk together. Some read and discuss what they read. Some watch a movie on the big screen and make popcorn. Some have restarted playing Bingo. $.10 a card/game. We’ve made our own version of “Riverwoods” for a lot less money.

@crispycritter143 weird

make requests....here we go. i bet you are perfect and each and every way though.

@@BillBarr4President wdym?

Gotta understand kid, selling widgets for some big corporation is way more "fulfilling" than taking care of a kid. Hey, is this the same character as "The Devil Wears Prada"?

@@dandavis8300 children are not a distraction from more important work they are the most important work

​@@Lexi_gemI like your perspective on this. Other women in the comments seem to blindly applaud her leaving. I haven't watched this movie, so I don't know the context, but in real life, situations are usually not one-sided. Men might be on husband's side, women on wife's, but we are human beings and we should be judged for our behavior, not by our sex.

My mom walked out on us just like this. To “find herself.” Well. She did. That betrayal left an irrevocable wound on my soul. I’m an adult now. Married. A proud mother. I couldn’t even imagine. This woman, my “mother”… will never know her grandchild. To protect our peace. Actions have consequences!

@@johanndaart7326 exactly ! I am well known for empowering women but I empower men too when they are feeling down ! I don’t say well you are a men and I’m working for women ? No . I understand everything that Merle character is feeling but I’ve been Dustin too ! I know how he feels here and it’s not what people are getting at all they see him taking her suitcase in an abusing way ? I don’t see that here . These performances are so amazing I can’t tell everything here but reading the comments is amazing how everyone is resonating in a different and such personal ways and the young ones too that just stumbled on this ? They are like I’ve never seen Merle young ! 😆 Kramer vs Kramer was a big hit for me as a child not preteen I saw it as a child on TV

So was she; Hoffmann slapped her with no previous rehearsal. It made her hate him for real.

@@brunobettati I know- when she revealed he threw the slap in, I was thinking if it were me, I would have slapped back harder, got him on the ground, and went ape crazy on him. She's so professional.

​@@brunobettati* she

The best improvised scene was when he knocked the wine glass out of her hand. Great movie. Great cast....

Improvising abuse. Wtf

Well said

Tough when woman you love leaves you😢

I feel the same. My ex retired from his job…he was miserable and decided it was my fault that he was unhappy. After 16 years, Left me like I was garbage with barely a word. He left me for a girl in our circle of friends. Everything was gone in my life overnight. I’m still in shock. I don’t understand how people can just walk out like you never existed.

​@@triciacooper9317 ❤❤ same

❤❤ most terrible destruction

​@@triciacooper9317 Take him for everything you can. Did u work while he went to school? Get alimony. Get new clothes & new friends. Enjoy life, your free!

I’m so sorry

I was a teenager and two older women were sitting near me and were really hating on Meryl Streep’s character. You’re right. It was a depressing movie about a broken family.

Me too! So very sad!

Abuse is depressing 😞

It is very depressing.

@@andreawood991 There was no abuse. Try watching it before commenting. O wise one.

Like she has said she had already paid the bills and taking care of everything

This is why guys should never try to get a woman back. No pleas, crying or show of emotion. She planned it for months

Watch the movie. They express your opinion with a little sence. What about their freaking son. "Find yourself" hahaha.

@@66kaisersozaExcellent point.

Everything except her child. She walked out on her own child. Then has the audacity to come back almost two years later, demand custody, and drag the entire family through the courts, furthering the trauma. She's a thoroughly awful person. Naturally most of the comments are applauding her actions.

A text. This is 2024😂

According to the movie… she came back and the movie ended understanding that both would be loving parents…separately.

"hold fast"! (1Thess.5 :21)

That is so brutal to have to experience. I worked in disabilities and it was quite common to see fathers walking out. Apparently some can't endure the grief. They don't feel capable. It's not a reflection at all on the worth of you and your little boy. They don't feel worthy and frankly they are cowardly. God the father will not abandon you.

@@desireemcnicol6155 Thank you for that tender mercy !

​@@cindyadams9264 Flawed understanding to think one can be a loving parent, after tearing a child in two.

I'm a woman, and unless he is physically abusive and any other way than in person is cowardly!

An abusive one, yes, but many times that's not the case.

NEVER. Even a non-violent one can snap under those circumstances and become violent.

Always assuming the worst of us. How would you all feel if we only expected the worst of you?

@@LukeLovesRose You guys are already doing that though. How many podcasts do you guys have calling us 304s with nothing to offer, gold diggers and even saying we’re not capable of love?

What do you do when your husband has so much pull and money that he makes you look unstable and he is physically violent?

@@kristianaquillen7931 i was married to a man who was physically and emotionally abusive and i had two kids 3 and 5. I had sneek away while he was at work, and I took my children with me. He went to my parents home and threatened them to tell him where we were so he could end all of us. The police had to make him leave twice. After that I got anonymous threatening calls at my job, threats to my parents…. The whole awful process of ending a marriage with a man like that…

My parents got divorced in the 80's, I related to it so much. I guess it's just different for all of us

Not everyone thinks the same way. Sometimes, it is for the best.

It use to be quite common in divorces that the mother would take the daughters and fathers would take the sons. This started to change in the 80s.

Selfish, entitled, unfaithful...

Typical female

And her hard working husband

That's what I was thinking. 🤷🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️😅

🙄 um.. Clairvoyance isn't real. She didn't communicate her feelings and dissatisfaction to him.

@@pippishortstocking7913 I can’t remember the details of the movie. Is that true? Had she never let him know that she was dissatisfied? Because normally women give men lots of notice and the men are still surprised when they leave.

@@maggiv5401 per Meryl Streep her character really never told him she was unhappy. In interviews she said she played her character with this secret: “I’d never really loved him.” So her husband truly was blindsided in “Kramer vs Kramer”.

​@@haltersweb That could make sense then why she could have acted as cold and heartless? However, do not buy it. 'Never really loved him/her' usually is simply a lame excuse for not being faithful and perseverant during tough times, and typically for narcissistic personalities, it's where they end up, after getting bored.

It is not real

@@lucylovic it’s Meryl Streep, so it feels real. That’s what a fantastic actress does.

Pain? How much courage does it take to abandon your own child? This is how a new era of women was created who have to fulfill themselves at the expense of their family, and when they do, they end up on a psychoanalyst's couch. Because what they really want makes an error in their heads after being confronted with what they were told they wanted to do. 

​@@ikaewa9934Stop projecting. Your weird hot takes have no resemblence to reality. If you don't like the way women do things, then just leave us alone. Go live by yourself.

Someone walking out like she did, obviously does so, because they want to, and had selfishly chosen to go their own way; this instead of making the sacrifice needed to stay.

Yup. Then practiced parent alienation against the father.

She didnt leave for years. It was a year. And In the end he got to know and get close to his son like he wouldnt have otherwise and custody.

She seemed unstable throughout the whole movie.

In the end though, she realized Billy was already home and let Ted have custody despite her having been awarded custody by the court. So that was a nice ending i thought.

Genz Stan pathetic actors like Zendaya. So they have no ground

Kaefreemanduchess: Cool

Thanks for using punctuation.. but the way you've used it has really confused the content of your post.

He wasn't violent. Communication was her problem all along. 🙄

@@waypay1misogyny was the problem

@@transcendcapitalismmore like misandry is yours .

Sometimes necessary!!

For all involved destructive for generations to come 😢