Ordinary People
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Movie Reviews of Ordinary People
Movie Review: The Only Movie That ever made me Cry
Summary: 5 Stars
Oridinary People is the only movie to make me cry ever and I am a girl it so real. This is one of the best movies on how America families look okay on the surface but are not really. I loved this movie. First, Judd Hirsht (Dr. Burger)was the best phychtrist played in a movie and Conrad (Hutton) does an excelent job on how someone has such a hard time expressing himself. Hirsht justs lets Conrad go at a certain pace and lets helps him see what is really bothering him. I find many people underrate Hirshts role. Donald Sutherland is spectacular and so is Mary Tyler Moore. The whole cast is brilliant using Canon in D minor touches you while you watch this film. This film deals with family lose and the different ways people cope and how it tears families apart. Mary Tyler Moore character Beth refuses to forgive Conrad (Hutton)for the death of Buck (her favorite son) You can tell in this how she really does hate Conrad and wished she had Buck instead how cold that is it and the truth. People just do not want to face it and that is what this movie really brings forth. Sutherland character worries and cares he tries to mend the family he does "see" what is happening to the family but is tyring to figure out what to do about it. The only part that I did not like was when Conrad's best friend on the swim team starts to be mean to him and towards the end Conrad says it is too painful to be around him and his friend just tells him to get lost. Then at the same time it shows how different poeple just cannot handle the tragedy and instead of trying harder he just lets him go. The scene where it all comes out on what happened to Buck is the hardest part to watch. Again Dr. Berger is brillant! A must see movie. The whole main cast should of gotten Oscars. Still 20 years later it effects people it is timeless.
Movie Review: Real drama about real people..
Summary: 5 Stars
I saw this film again after almost 20 years, and was again riveted by its artistry and integrity. Robert Redford's directoial debut was most acute, with generous close-ups, and a profound respect for the script. Timothy Hutton is the center of this film, and the completeness of his incredible performance can make no one doubt why he won the Oscar (Supporting?). I won't rehash the plot because everyone else has done that. But there's the performance of Mary Tyler Moore, shedding her good girl image and playing a selfish control-freak mother with virtually no emotion. She's incapable of saying "I Love You" to anyone in her life, including herself. It's a classic performance, adding to her already respectable body of work. Judd Hirsch was pivotal to the goings-on as the shrink (also Oscar nominated), and Elizabeth McGovern was excellent in one of her first roles as Hutton's puppy-love (she was nominated the following year for "Ragtime"). In a small but pivotal role, Dinah Manoff shines as the only person Hutton felt he could talk to, but ultimately, couldn't. Though this won most of the major Oscars (Picture, Director, Screenplay, Supp. Actor), the Academy should hang their heads in shame for ignoring the outstanding performance of Donald Sutherland. It was a subdued, centered performance that eventually made everything make sense. His final scene (with Moore) was so very sincere, and the closing scene (with Hutton), where they both said "I Love You" to each other, made everything seem all right. Even if he was nominated, it's hard to say if he could've beaten DeNiro in "Raging Bull". (I'm disappointed that Hutton's and McGovern's careers weren't greater.) Have tissues handy, and experience this wonderful display by Redford that made this dysfunctional family so compelling.Movie Review: A Psychological Masterpiece
Summary: 5 Stars
Robert is a fine actor, but his true gift is directing. This was the first movie he directed and it is true american masterpiece.
I am a clinical psychologist. Myself and my classmates studied this movie 20+ years ago when I was in graduate school. This movie has the truest theatrical representation of how the patient/psychotherapist relationship develops and how the patient is helped from this sincere, trust filled relationship.
The therapeutic style represented in the movie seems to me to be a "gestalt/psychodynamic" based therapy. This therapy does not "psychoanalyze" the patient, but focuses on what is happening in the moment and a real (albeit professional) relationship developes between doctor and patient. The patient is subsequently helped by the strength of this relationship (Gestalt). This therapy process also helps the father and son become aware of the underlying unconscious forces that impact their feelings, self-perceptions, and behavior.
The psychotherapeutic relationship is "Gestalt/psychodynamic" in nature, but the movie script is a classic psychological study of psychodynamic unconscious processes. We see how people respond to powerful unconscious impulses. The two people in the movie who have the courage to look for and eventually see their unconscious defensive reactions are saved. The person who is too afraid to examine hidden motivations is set adrift in an empty sea of emotional pain, filled with the eventual and unescaple loneliness that results from a life based on looking good rather than doing well.
For anyone interested in a great movie, from a psychological perspective, this is the best movie I have ever seen.
Movie Review: No ordinary movie
Summary: 5 Stars
"Ordinary Peole" deservingly won the Oscar for Best Picture of 1980. It desplicts realities of those in such living turmoil. It proves that such awful feelings toward oneself can strike those with the seemingly perfect life. It explores the after-effects of a family once they lose a child, and once the other attempts suicide. Robert Redford makes his Oscar winning directorial debut, leading the cast and crew to create a flawless, unforgettable masterpiece.Donald Sutherland and Mary Tyler Moore(Calvin and Beth Jerrad) play the lead roles as the supporting father and the selfish non-loving mother. Their marriage is on the verge of divorce due to Beth's lack of support of their living son Conrad, played by Timothy Hutton. Conrad faces guilt after losing his brother, Buck, in a boating accident a year ago. His psychologist forces him to confront every life aspect.
Every actor portrays their character delightfully, forcing every drop of emotion to the audience, even those with limited screentime. Timothy Hutton deserved his Oscar win for Best Supporting Actor. Mary Tyler Moore and Judd Hirsch deserved their Oscar nominations for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor. Why wasn't Donald Sutherland nominated for his best role of his career? Who knows.
Those looking for a serious drama should watch "Ordinary People". One may have to think about the events after the first watch. Those who've watched it twenty times still discover new interesting details.
Movie Review: WOW!!!! FOR ANY AGES AT ANYTIME!
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm pretty young. I actually wasn't born when this movie came out! But when I saw it just months ago it instantly became one of my fave movies. The observant and touching tale is that of the Jarrets an "ordinary" american family who has come across and extrordinary experience of greif when their older son dies in a boating accident in front of the eyes of their younger boy Conrad portrayed by a brilliant Timothy Hutton who's performance is near spotless. Isn't it amazing that this was his first feature film...really a troubled youth performance that will go down in film history (And it really doesn't hurt the guy that he's gorgeous.) I am very happy he went on instead of dying out young. Anyway back to the story..(I have a little thing for Hutton could you tell...one of my fave actors.) So after witnessing his brothers death Conrad is left with such guilt that he attempts suicide. The movie begins when Conrad has returned to his "ordinary" life with his mother Beth (A fantastic Mary Tyler Moore who does the cold and bitter mother perfectly) and his father Calvin (A touching and tragic Donald Sutherland) both of who are having a hard time faceing the change. It is only when Conrad begins seeing a shrink (A wonderful and empathetic Judd Hirsh...in my opinion he could have been a bit more empathetic but thats just me) that things begin to get riled up and begin to crumble. A deffinate tear jerker but one flick for any age at anytime. Totally deserving of all it's Oscars and more.