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Ordinary People

Robert Redford’s Oscar-winning directorial debut is a moving and articulate portrait of a family torn apart by tragedy.

  • Director

    Robert Redford

  • With

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

  • USA 1980. 119min

  • Digital

  • Certificate

    15

Redford’s feature directorial debut saw him win an Academy Award for his portrait of a middle-class American family coping with a devastating loss. Sutherland and Tyler Moore impress as grieving parents, while another Oscar winner, Timothy Hutton, plays their son, whose overwhelming sense of guilt finds him in the care of Judd Hirsch’s psychiatrist. Words become weapons in this riveting drama, which now stands as a potent symbol of a country moving from the heartfelt liberalism of the Carter administration to the contrasting vision of Republican America under Ronald Reagan.

‘This understated tour de force performance is a mandatory watch from Donald Sutherland. A quiet epic.’
– Craig L, BFI Member

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