Ordinary People is a movie directed by Robert Redford in 1980 and based on the book of the same name by Judith Guest, first published in 1976. The movie features Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch, Timothy Hutton, M. Emmet Walsh, Elizabeth McGovern, and others.
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Storyline
The Jarretts are an upper-middle-class family in suburban Chicago trying to return to normal life after the accidental death of their older teenage son, Buck, and the attempted suicide of their younger and surviving son, Conrad. Conrad, however, still struggles to communicate and re-establish a normal relationship with his parents and schoolmates, including Stillman, with whom he gets into a fistfight.
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Movie vs Book
Year
1980
Minutes
124
Movie Rate
7.70
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Movie
Ordinary People
Director: Robert Redford
Country: USA
Year: 1980
Length: 2h4m
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Year
1976
Pages
263
Book Rate
7.82
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Book
Ordinary People
Author: Judith Guest
Country: USA
First published in: 1976
Length: 263 pages
Genre: Fiction
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