Ordinary People (1980)
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Ordinary People, the 1980 directorial debut of actor Robert Redford is an excellent film that won several Academy Awards including Best Picture of the Year; it is also an excellent study of a dysfunctional family. Based on Judith Guest's novel, the plot centers on the deterioration of a family after the accidental death of the eldest son, Buck. The family survivors include the cold mother/wife Beth (Mary Tyler Moore), the passive father Calvin (Donald Sutherland), and the guilt-ridden younger teenaged son Conrad (Timothy Hutton), who returns home after a three-month stay in a mental hospital where he was sent after slitting his wrists, and where he underwent shock therapy among other treatments. As the film progresses, it becomes clear that this was a family with emotional problems even before the death of Buck. In functional families, the needs of the individual family members are met, while in dysfunctional families like the Jarretts, the needs are not met. Functional families are willing to listen to one another and make compromises to meet each other's needs, but dysfunctional families are unwilling to do this, and therefore th
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