Stanley and Iris (1990)

When widowed Jane Fonda discovers that her friend and co-worker Robert DeNiro is illiterate, she offers to help him with his disability. The two leads have just enough chemistry and talent that the central romance carries off decently. Unfortunately there is such simplicity in the story-telling to render it distracting. DeNiro is obviously functionally illiterate as he cares for his elderly father and somehow got his current job, but in the film, there is no indication that he has figured out how to get around basic reading-adjacent skills such as navigating a city or choosing from a set of pill bottles. Secondarily, when Fonda’s teenage daughter Martha Plimpton gets pregnant, there is no discussion about her options instead Fonda immediately berates her and jumps to the ‘I’m not going to take care of it’ trope.