Nominated for Best Actor (Dustin Hoffman), Best Supporting Actor (Justin Henry, who you also might remember as the shitty younger brother in "16 Candles"), Best Supporting Actress (Jane Alexander and Meryl Streep), Directing, Film Editing, Best Picture, and Adapted Screenplay in 1979.
So, I think this is a perfect screenplay. That's my uneducated but wildly hungry assertion. It's perfect. If you're a screenwriter, get your hands on a copy of this screenplay. Take the time to write out all the gunk that could have appeared in the movie, and then give yourself the satisfaction and the muscle memory of scratching it out. Perfect screenplay, perfect performances. And sadly still relevant in its statements on the family and the roll of the sexes at work and at home. Not much else to say. Just perfect.
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