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.
Jane Fonda
as Iris King
Robert De Niro
as Stanley Cox
Swoosie Kurtz
as Sharon
Martha Plimpton
as Kelly King
Jamey Sheridan
as Joe
Feodor Chaliapin Jr.
as Leonides Cox
Zohra Lampert
as Elaine
Loretta Devine
as Bertha
Kathy Kinney
as Bernice
Harley Cross
as Richard King
Julie Garfield
as Belinda
Karen Ludwig
as Melissa
