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Ordinary People is a american film of genre Drama directed by Robert Redford released in USA on 19 september 1980 with Donald Sutherland
Ordinary People (1980)
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Add to a movie listOrdinary People is a 1980 American drama film that marked the directorial debut of actor Robert Redford. It stars Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch and Timothy Hutton.
The story concerns the disintegration of an upper-middle class family in Lake Forest, Illinois, following the death of one of their sons in a boating accident. The screenplay by Alvin Sargent was based upon the 1976 novel Ordinary People by Judith Guest.
The film was a critical and commercial success, winning four Oscars, including the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Synopsis
The Jarretts are an upper-middle-class family in suburban Chicago trying to return to normal life after the death of one teenage son and the attempted suicide of their surviving son, Conrad (Timothy Hutton). Conrad has recently returned home from a four-month stay in a psychiatric hospital. He feels alienated from his friends and family and begins seeing a psychiatrist, Dr. Berger (Judd Hirsch). Berger learns that Conrad was involved in a sailing accident in which his older brother, Buck, whom everyone idolized, died. Conrad now deals with post-traumatic stress disorder and survivor's guilt.Actors
Donald Sutherland
(Calvin Jarrett)
Mary Tyler Moore
(Beth Jarrett)
Timothy Hutton
(Conrad Jarrett)
Judd Hirsch
(Dr. Berger)
Elizabeth McGovern
(Jeannine Pratt)
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