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Film · 1980 · Drama
Ordinary People
Directed by Robert Redford
1980
★ 5.6 editorial score
Redford directed this before anyone thought he could, and it goes at what American families do not discuss: a Chicago suburb where everyone is fine, and a son in therapy who is not.
“While not ultimately downbeat or despairing, tale of a disturbed boy’s precarious tightrope walk through his teens is played out with tremendous seriousness, thereby setting it apart from many other recent films trading in snideness and cynicism. Pic possesses a somber, hour of the wolf mood, with characters forced to definitively confront their own souls before fadeout.”
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