Only reaching Chekhovian heights in its dreams.
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02/23/08
Ordinary People (1980)
90 %
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Reviews Counted: 30
Fresh: 27
Rotten:3
Average Rating: 7.8/10
Consensus: Though shot through with bitterness and sorrow, Robert Redford's directorial debut is absorbing and well-acted.
Runtime: 2 hrs 4 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Devastated by the loss of their older son, well-to-do suburban couple Calvin (Donald Sutherland) and Beth (Mary Tyler Moore) are trying to rebuild their lives after their younger son, Conrad (Timothy Hutton), attempts suicide. While... [More]
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Timothy Hutton, Judd Hirsch
Director: Robert Redford
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Reviews for Ordinary People
Top Critic For an Oscar-winner it's unusually bleak but the power is very carefully controlled.
11/07/07
This dissection of family mores in upscale suburbia is emotionally effective but decidedly unsentimental--it's the perfect text for the feature directorial debut of Robert Redford, exhibiting restrained style with strong performances.
12/23/06
Robert Redford chose to adapt Judith Guest's novel as his first directorial effort, with impressive results.
12/13/06
The film looks austere and serious, rather as if it had been shot inside a Frigidaire, and the oppressiveness of the images tends to strangle laughter, even at the most absurd excesses of Alvin Sargent's script.
12/13/06
Top Critic A beautifully acted film about the impact of a family tragedy on those who blame themselves and others.
12/13/06
An actors' movie and an advert for therapy, extremely bitter, but handsomely directed in its elegant pretentiousness.
01/26/06
It is Redford's ability to let the movie breathe...that forces the viewer to experience the film on a visceral level.
11/24/04
Top Critic It works fairly on the screen, but holds none of the effectiveness of Guest's novel.
02/21/04
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