` stanley and iris be a heart warming film about two people who find each other and help one another overcome their problem in life . stanley life be difficult and because he never learn to read or write . iris be a widower with two teenage child work in a bakery where she meet stanley . she decide to teach stanley how to read at her home in her spare time . over time they become romantically involved . after stanley learns to read and he go off to a good job in chicago and only to return to iris and ask her to marry him . it a really good film without nudity and violence and or profanity and that which be rare in today film . a good film all round . .