Robert Benton

Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane. Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the nefarious Lex Luthor launches a plan to take over the world.

Dir. Richard Donner · With Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Gene Hackman

Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now faced with the tasks of housekeeping and taking care of himself and their young son Billy.

Dir. Robert Benton · With Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Jane Alexander

In the 1930s, bored European-American waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with a European-American ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.

Dir. Arthur Penn · With Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard

The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.

Dir. Peter Bogdanovich · With Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Madeline Kahn

In 1935 rural Texas, recently widowed Edna Spaulding struggles to survive with two small children, a farm to run, and very little money in the bank - not to mention a deadly tornado and the unwelcome presence of the Ku Klux Klan. Edna is aided by her beautician sister, Margaret; a blind boarder, Mr. Will; and a would-be thief, Moze, who decides to teach Edna how to plant and harvest cotton.

Dir. Robert Benton · With Sally Field, Lindsay Crouse, John Malkovich

A charming but ruthless criminal is sent to a remote Arizona prison, where he enlists the help of his cellmates in an escape attempt with the promise of sharing his hidden loot.

Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz · With Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda, Hume Cronyn

A rascally nearing-retirement man juggles a workers' compensation suit while secretly working for his nemesis and flirting with his nemesis' young wife. As his estranged son returns, he faces new family responsibilities, while a banker plots to evict him from his home.

Dir. Robert Benton · With Paul Newman, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith

A meditation on love and its various incarnations, set within a community of friends in Oregon. It is described as an exploration of the magical, mysterious and sometimes painful incarnations of love.

Dir. Robert Benton · With Morgan Freeman, Greg Kinnear, Radha Mitchell

When one of his patients is found murdered, psychiatrist Dr. Sam Rice is visited by the investigating officer but refuses to give up any information. He's then visited by the patient's mistress, Brooke Reynolds, whom he quickly falls for despite her being a likely murder suspect. As the police pressure on him intensifies, Rice decides to attempt solving the case on his own and soon discovers that someone is trying to kill him as well.

Dir. Robert Benton · With Roy Scheider, Meryl Streep, Jessica Tandy

A retired detective accepts a simple task, unaware that it will tear open old, forgotten, but deadly wounds.

Dir. Robert Benton · With Paul Newman, Susan Sarandon, Gene Hackman

A shady lawyer attempts a Christmas Eve crime, hoping to swindle the local mob out of some money. But his partner, a strip club owner, might have different plans for the cash.

Dir. Harold Ramis · With John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, Connie Nielsen

In the year 1935, a teen named Billy Bathgate finds first love while becoming the protégé of fledgling gangster Dutch Schultz.

Dir. Robert Benton · With Loren Dean, Dustin Hoffman, Nicole Kidman

Coleman Silk is a worldly and admired professor who loses his job after unwittingly making a racial slur. To clear his name, Silk writes a book about the events with his friend and colleague Nathan Zuckerman, who in the process discovers a dark secret Silk has hidden his whole life. All the while, Silk engages in an affair with Faunia Farley, a younger woman whose tormented past threatens to unravel the layers of deception Silk has constructed.

Dir. Robert Benton · With Anthony Hopkins, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris