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Academy Award Winner—Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor in a Supporting Role Golden Globe Winner—Best Motion Picture - Drama, Best Director - Motion Picture, Best Motion Picture Actress - Drama |
"A powerfully intimate domestic drama." -- Variety

(Avg. 3.5)Ordinary People is a 1980 American film drama that marked the directorial debut of Robert Redford. The story concerns the disintegration of an upper middle class family in Lake Forest, Illinois, following the death of the oldest son. The screenplay by Alvin Sargent was based upon the 1976 novel by Judith Guest.