Kramer VS. Kramer
TCM, 4:45 a.m. ET
Here’s the final New York movie of the night on TCM – and this 1979 movie, starring Dustin Hoffman as a young father trying to deal with unexpected single parenthood, is worth watching (or setting your recorder to catch) for plenty of reasons other than the Manhattan scenery. It features terrific performances by Hoffman, and by Meryl Streep as the mostly absent mother who asks for a divorce. Streep won an Oscar for her role here, and another for Sophie’s Choice in 1982. But since then, that slacker actress hasn’t won a single Best Actress Oscar in 29 years. So maybe this year, thanks to her nomination for The Iron Lady, you can root for her wholeheartedly – as the underdog.