Stanley & Iris
Feb 09, 1990 | IMDB 6.4
104 min Watch NowDrama, Romance
An illiterate cook at a company cafeteria tries for the attention of a newly widowed woman. As they get to know one another, she discovers his inability to read. When he is fired, she takes on trying to teach him to read in her kitchen each night.
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