Stanley & Iris

Stanley & Iris
Theatrical release poster
Directed byMartin Ritt
Screenplay by
  • Harriet Frank, Jr.
  • Irving Ravetch
Based onUnion Street
by Pat Barker
Produced byArlene Sellers
Alex Winitsky
Starring
CinematographyDonald McAlpine
Edited bySidney Levin
Music byJohn Williams
Production
companies
Lantana Productions
Star Partners II Ltd.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Distributed byMGM/UA Communications Co.
Release date
  • February 9, 1990 (1990-02-09)
Running time
104 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$23 million
Box office$5.8 million

Stanley & Iris is a 1990 American romantic drama film directed by Martin Ritt and starring Jane Fonda and Robert De Niro. The screenplay by Harriet Frank Jr. and Irving Ravetch is loosely based on the 1982 novel Union Street by Pat Barker.

The original music score is composed by John Williams, and the cinematography is by Donald McAlpine. The film was marketed with the tagline "Some people need love spelled out for them". It is the final film for the Ritt, Frank and Ravetch trio, as Ritt died ten months after the film's release, while Ravetch and Frank retired after the film's release. It is also the last film in which Fonda would appear for 15 years until 2005's Monster-in-Law.

The film was panned by critics and was a box-office bomb.