The read
Audiences rate it 34 points higher than critics do. Most of the 1,952 1990s drama movies in this catalog score higher.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes29%
Audiences rate it 34 points higher than critics do.
182 audience votes
Key crew
- Martin RittDirector
- Harriet Frank Jr.Screenplay
- Irving RavetchScreenplay
- John WilliamsOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Jane FondaIris King
- Robert De NiroStanley Cox
- Swoosie KurtzSharon
- Martha PlimptonKelly King
- Jamey SheridanJoe
- Feodor Chaliapin Jr.Leonides Cox
- Zohra LampertElaine
- Loretta DevineBertha
- Kathy KinneyBernice
- Harley CrossRichard King
- Julie GarfieldBelinda
- Karen LudwigMelissa
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Themes
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