Meryl Streep commenting that she played it on "automatic pilot". She performed the role of Katherine in "The Taming of the Shrew" for Shakespeare in the Park, and also played a supporting role in "Manhattan" (1979) for Woody Allen. Streep later said that Allen did not provide her with a complete script, giving her only the six pages of her own scenes, and did not permit her to improvise a word of her dialogue. In the drama "Kramer vs. Kramer", Streep was cast opposite Dustin Hoffman as an unhappily married woman who abandons her husband and child. Streep thought that the script
Manhattan (film) the form of those movies that he might have seen as a child in Coney Island—freeing the visions that he sensed to be locked up in the silver screen." In October 2013, readers of "The Guardian" newspaper voted it the best film directed by Woody Allen. New York Film Critics Circle named Allen best director for "Manhattan". The National Society of Film Critics also named Allen best director along with Robert Benton, who directed "Kramer vs. Kramer". The film was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress (Mariel Hemingway) and Best Original Screenplay (Allen and Marshall Brickman). It also