It's The Treat. I'm Elvis Mitchell.

Writer, director, Josh Safty, makes movies about people who think that they're loners,

coming to realize they need other people.

That's evident in his film Marty Supreme, which is nominated for nine Oscars,

including Best Picture and Best Director.

For The Treat, Safty remembers a classic film that touched on that theme

and had a special resonance in his home.

I'm Josh Saffty and this is the treat.

I don't remember the age that my brother and I were,

but at some point, you know, my mom was coming back into the picture.

My parents were separated since a very early age.

Kind of a crazy traumatic thing happened at a very, very young age,

and I was living with my dad for a while.

And he was trying to prepare me and Benny for the experience of seeing our mother and being with her for a little bit

of time. So he decided, like he did with most of our big experiences in life, to prepare us through

movies, show us a film. And he decided in that moment that he was going to show

his Kramer versus Kramer. And he said, I'm Dustin Hoffman. Your mom is on the street. Watch. Ted, I'm

leaving you. Ted. Keys. Here are my keys. Here's my American Express card. Here's my

Bloomingdale's credit card. Here's my checkbook. I've taken $2,000 out of our savings account because that's what I had in the bank when we first got married. What's this some kind of job? Here's the cleaning. Here's the laundry ticket. You can pick them both up on Saturday. You have to pick them up on Saturday. I the rent I paid the conned bill and I paid the

I was like eight years old and I'm watching this movie and you know for as progressive as that

movie was giving women the freedom to leave that was usually given to the father in most stories

Meryl Streep is kind of the bad guy in that movie,

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