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) harsher, crueler, deeper-going, more assertive but in the end no less life-affirming than 'Annie Hall,'" and declared "Manhattan" "even better" than that film. Alexander Walker of the "London Evening Standard" wrote: "So precisely nuanced is the speech, so subtle the behaviour of a group of friends, lovers, mistresses and cuckolds who keep splitting up and pairing off like unstable molecules". In 2007, J. Hoberman wrote in "The Village Voice": "The New York City that Woody so tediously defended in "Annie Hall" was in crisis. And so he imagined an improved version. More than that, he cast this shining city in