Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Ordinary People (1980) - 1 star

One sentence plot summary: A family sees one son die and then another attempt suicide and then we get to watch them be sad.

Starring: Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Timothy Hutton, Judd Hirsch, Elizabeth McGovern, M. Emmet Walsh, Dinah Manoff, Fredric Lehne, James B. Sikking, Basil Hoffman, Adam Baldwin.

Best of: It wasn't a musical.

Worst of: It goes to such a melodramatic place on several occasions that you end up laughing.

I would have liked it better if: all the sadness didn't seem to amount to much beyond just a bunch of sadness.

Also nominated: Raging Bull.

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