Let's revisit Ordinary People

BUCK wouldn't have started a thread on this topic

Yes, OP.

We simply don't discuss MTM's character enough here.

It really is a great film.

Donald Sutherland should have been nominated.

I adore Raging Bull, Coal Miner's Daughter, Tess, and The Elephant Man but am totally fine with Ordinary People winning Best Picture. I know many people have said that Raging Bull should have won, but I think both films are great and both are worthy of the win.

Here's a thread

Another one

Shortish one

Buck wouldn't have started ANOTHER thread.

Didn't Mary Tyler Moore's son commit suicide around the time this movie came out? Oh yeah. He was 'playing' Russian roulette.

This one here

Long one

Fucking hell, we are obsessed with this movie. Even MOAR threads at the link

I think many DLers had mothers just like Beth Jarrett.

Conrad would be 58-60 years old in 2021. Beth would be an old, bitter crone.

¿ Because they are really really depressing?

[quote]Conrad would be 58-60 years old in 2021. Beth would be an old, bitter crone.

And Buck would still be dead.

“You can’t save French Toast.”

OP Buck thinks you are redundant.

[quote]Christmas in London would be like something out of Dickens.

I think this is the funniest line.

I’m glad Connie’s girlfriend eventually married that English Earl.

Timothy Hutton is 61.

While Buck is dead.

I smell French toast and regret.

Why ARE so many gay guys obsessed with this bourgeois movie? I was in college when it came out and we laughed at all the cliched melodrama. "You need to get in touch with your FEELings" etc. etc.

23. Arf Arf, Arf

Timothy Hutton was the Chalamet of his day.

Buck would never have got Corona Virus!

-Beth Jarrett.

I found the novel today in one of those free libraries you see around town. I read it when the movie first came out but haven't since. Looking forward to revisiting it.

I never liked this movie even though I’ve fetishized the timeframe this movie came out in. Basically 1978-1982. This film and the acting by the son and MTM we’re rigid and at times overwrought.

I really love this movie, and It has held up since it first came out.

[quote] Why don't they make movies like this anymore?

They do. Not all movies today are aimed at males between 16 and 45. There are some dealing with relationships, personal struggles, and other adult topics.

Silver Linings Playbook and Moonlight are two, off the top of my head.

It does t hold up in 2022. It’s very of it’s time if not regressive for 1979-1980.

Today Beth would have Alzheimer's and think that Buck is still alive. So this worked out rather well for her.

I grew up on the North Shore in this time period. It is very much of its time. Not regressive at all. Everybody’s parents went to see this movie. A lot of moms chilled the fuck out afterwards.

Is this Conrad? I opened the book yesterday and found that b/w photo inside, it's probably a bookmark.

Is that the last photo of Conrad in existence? Maybe it fell to the floor when Beth took all Conrad's photos and burned them. I think the toothmarks are Pippin's, he tried to save the photo because he knew what Beth was doing.

Mrs. Jarrett simply doesn't get enough recognition for her sacrifices.

A child's life sometimes ends prematurely....but always permanently.

Good god, I'm so old. I read "Ordinary People" when it was serialized in Redbook Magazine. Even before it was published as a book.

Yes, I read Redbook, and yes, I am gay. Or is that redundant?

R34 That would be a photo of Buck, who never would have _______ed.

They don’t make movies like this because: they need an intelligent screenplay, they need producers etc willing to go out on a limb and try something new, in lieu of the same old recycled garbage of comic books, violence and soft core porn.

It’s all about the money only

Again? It’s very good but not THAT good lol

How upset were film critics and film snobs at the time that this won over Raging Bull?

Donald Sutherland was really cheated out of a nom, he was heartbreakingly good.