Pros: A realistic, original look into a broken family - a timeless classic Cons: Slow-moving and melancholy - but well worth it
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Timothy Hutton, and Judd Hirsh
The subtle, poignant masterpiece and Academy Award winner for best picture of 1980, “Ordinary People”, is a heartbreaking, character driven tale that evolves around...
Pros: In depth study of people's loss and their emotional journey through this loss. Cons: Sorry, none that I could see. Loved it!
I have never seen a movie that deals with the death of a family member in such a personal way. The movies deals directly with how each family member deals with a death of one of their own. The casting of this movie was absolutely perfect. Timothy Hutton...
Pros: Over-the-top MTM performance with great acting from the rest. Cons: All style and no substance. Doesn't get beyond surface scenes. No depth. Poor ending.
Turner Classic Movies showed both "Mildred Pierce" and "Ordinary People" as a back to back double feature last month. All I can say is that I've had my fill of dark psychodrama that depicts flawed and disintegrating mother/child stories.
Pros: About a family who is dealing with daily life. Cons: None.
The first time I watched this movie was in 1980 when it first came out and I was just impressed. I like the actress who played wife and mother in this movie. This is about a family who is nothing further than being ordinary. One thing that the woman...
A good actor does not appear to be acting. This is a paraphrase of a statement Timothy Hutton made early in the 1980's. And it's also a good way to describe the performances in Ordiniary People. First there was not a miscasts part in this movie. I read...
Pros: great cast/acting, difficult subject matter Cons: very depressing
One family's difficult and heart-wrenching emotional recovery from a high-school child's accidental death and a younger child's suicide attempt. Mary Tyler Moore is the cold-as-ice mother who is devastated by the death of her son and who cannot find a...
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