Plot
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.
Cast
Jane Fonda
Iris King
Robert De Niro
Stanley Cox
Swoosie Kurtz
Sharon
Martha Plimpton
Kelly King
Jamey Sheridan
Joe
Feodor Chaliapin Jr.
Leonides Cox
Zohra Lampert
Elaine
Loretta Devine
Bertha
Kathy Kinney
Bernice
Harley Cross
Richard King
Julie Garfield
Belinda
Karen Ludwig
Melissa
Crew
Martin Ritt
Director
Irving Ravetch
Screenplay
John Williams
Original Music Composer
Donald McAlpine
Director of Photography
Arlene Sellers
Producer
Harriet Frank Jr.
Screenplay
Alex Winitsky
Producer
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