Robert Benton

Robert Benton

September 29, 1932 · 93 years old

Robert Douglas Benton (September 29, 1932 - May 11, 2025) was an American screenwriter and film director. Benton was born in Waxahachie, Texas, the son of Dorothy (née Spaulding) and Ellery Douglass Benton, a telephone company employee. He attended the University of Texas and Columbia University. B…

Known For

14 titles
1
Superman

Superman

1978 · 2h 23m · Movie

An alien orphan is sent from his dying planet to Earth, where he grows up to become his adoptive home's first and greatest superhero.

7.4
2
Kramer vs. Kramer

Kramer vs. Kramer

1979 · 1h 45m · Movie

After his wife leaves him, a work-obsessed Manhattan advertising executive is forced to learn long-neglected parenting skills, but a heated custody battle over the couple's young son deepens the wounds left by the separation.

7.8
3
Bonnie and Clyde

Bonnie and Clyde

1967 · 1h 51m · Movie

Bored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.

7.7
4
The Human Stain

The Human Stain

2003 · 1h 46m · Movie

When a disgraced former college dean has a romance with a mysterious younger woman haunted by her dark, twisted past, he is forced to confront a shocking fact about his own life that he has kept secret for fifty years.

6.2
5
What's Up, Doc?

What's Up, Doc?

1972 · 1h 34m · Movie

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

7.7
6
The Ice Harvest

The Ice Harvest

2005 · 1h 32m · Movie

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.

6.2
7
Nobody's Fool

Nobody's Fool

1994 · 1h 50m · Movie

A stubborn man past his prime reflects on his life of strict independence and seeks more from himself.

7.3
8
Feast of Love

Feast of Love

2007 · 1h 37m · Movie

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

6.5
9
Twilight

Twilight

1998 · 1h 34m · Movie

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

6.2
10
Places in the Heart

Places in the Heart

1984 · 1h 51m · Movie

In north Texas in the 1930s, a widow with two small children tries to save her small 40-acre farm with the help of a blind boarder and an itinerant black handyman.

7.4
11
Billy Bathgate

Billy Bathgate

1991 · 1h 46m · Movie

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

5.9
12
Still of the Night

Still of the Night

1982 · 1h 33m · Movie

A Manhattan psychiatrist probes a patient's murder and falls for the victim's mysterious mistress.

6.0
13
Bad Company

Bad Company

1972 · 1h 33m · Movie

A God-fearing Ohio boy dodging the Civil War draft arrives in St. Joseph, MO where he joins up with a hardscrabble group of like runaways heading west

6.9
14
Nadine

Nadine

1987 · 1h 23m · Movie

In 1950s Texas, a woman trying to recover sexy photos of herself and divorce her husband witnesses a murder and uncovers corrupt land dealings.

5.5