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Ordinary People

Oscar™ Best Picture - Winning Movies

Ordinary People

1980

Robert Redford

Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch, Timothy Hutton ...

7.2

9,423

Drama Teen-aged brothers and best friends Buck and Conrad Jarrett were involved in a boating accident which claimed Buck's life. Shortly thereafter, Conrad tried to commit suicide. After a four month hospitalization, Conrad is back in his upper middle class suburban Chicago home with his parents, Calvin and Beth Jarrett. The Jarretts collectively are publicly trying to get on with their lives, Conrad who is back at high school in his senior ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"A powerfully intimate domestic drama (...) A remarkably intelligent and assured directorial debut."	POS
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"A moving, intelligent and funny film (...) [It] effectively catches the look, sound and temper of a particular kind of American existence."	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"'Ordinary People' is an intelligent, perceptive, and deeply moving film (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Kathleen Carroll New York Daily News	"A soul-searing, penetratingly honest movie (...) It is nearly impossible to look at this brilliantly executed movie without being moved to tears."	POS
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"The film looks austere and serious (...) and the oppressiveness of the images tends to strangle laughter, even at the most absurd excesses of Alvin Sargent's script."	NEU
United Kingdom	Empire	"Fully deserving of its many accolades (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Don Macpherson Time Out	"It's a scrupulously observed affluent American psychodrama that wishes it was Chekhov"	POS
United Kingdom	Sue Heal Radio Times	"There is one truly great performance from Mary Tyler Moore (...) One of the first films to deal intelligently with the role of therapy (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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