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- The film was based on a JudithGuest novel. The book was widely challenged or banned because of its subject matter, which includes suicide.
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Ordinary People is a 1980 American drama film directed by Robert Redford in his feature directorial debut. The screenplay by Alvin Sargent is based on the 1976 novel by Judith Guest.
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Mar 25, 2022 · Nominated for six Academy Awards, Ordinary People marked RobertRedford ’s directorial debut with its story centered on the accidental death of the oldest son in an affluent family. The 1980...
Oct 20, 2020 · “Ordinary People,” based on Judith Guest’s novel, does big emotions with exquisite touch. As I watch now, I find my eye drifting away from Conrad (sorry dude) and toward his parents, Calvin (Donald Sutherland) and Beth (a revelatory Mary Tyler Moore). This is partially because I’m close to their age now.
Aug 1, 2013 · There are no tricks here, no special effects, no shocking twists of plot; there is only cinematic storytelling and acting at their very finest. Ordinary People is the story of a family that has been rocked by an emotional earthquake – the accidental death of a son.
“Ordinary People” isn’t a docudrama; it’s the story of these people and their situation, and it shows them doing what’s most difficult to show in fiction, it shows them changing, learning, and growing.
Ordinary People: Directed by Robert Redford. With Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch, Timothy Hutton. The accidental death of the older son of an affluent family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother, the good-natured father and the guilt-ridden younger son.
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