Hawthorne - Louis Bay 2nd Public Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Ordinary people [videorecording (DVD)] / Paramount Pictures presents a Wildwood Enterprises production ; produced by Ronald L. Schwary ; screenplay by Alvin Sargent ; directed by Robert Redford.

Other Title:

Container of (work): Ordinary people (Motion picture)

Container of (expression): Ordinary people (Motion picture). French.

Publisher, Date:

Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Home Entertainment, [2001]

Description:

1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in. stamping

digital optical

NTSC

video file region 1

DVD video

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: R; Canadian Home Video rating 14A.

Credits:

Director of photography, John Bailey ; art directors, Phillip Bennett, J. Michael Riva ; editor, Jeff Kanew ; music adapted by Marvin Hamlisch ; costume designer, Bernie Pollack.

Performers:

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

System Details:

DVD, region 1; NTSC; Dolby Digital mono.; widescreen presentation.

Summary:

The "ordinary" existence of an upper middle class family is shattered with the death of the older son and the struggle of the younger son against guilt and suicide.

Notes:

Based on the novel by Judith Guest.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1980.

Special feature: theatrical trailer.

Director of photography, John Bailey ; art directors, Phillip Bennett, J. Michael Riva ; editor, Jeff Kanew ; music adapted by Marvin Hamlisch ; costume designer, Bernie Pollack.

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

DVD, region 1; NTSC; Dolby Digital mono.; widescreen presentation.

Dialogue in English with optional French soundtrack, and with optional English subtitles (for the deaf and hard of hearing); closed-captioned in English.

Academy Awards, 1980: Best Picture ; Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Timothy Hutton) ; Best Director (Robert Redford) ; Best Writing (Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium) (Alvin Sargent).

Golden Globe Awards, 1981: Best Motion Picture - Drama (Ronald L. Schwary) ; Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama (Mary Tyler Moore) ; Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture (Timothy Hutton) ; Best Director - Motion Picture (Robert Redford) ; New Star Of The Year in a Motion Picture - Male (Timothy Hutton).

Series:

Widescreen DVD collection

Widescreen DVD collection.

Subjects:

Guest, Judith -- Film adaptations.

Teenage boys -- Drama.

Brothers -- Drama.

Death -- Drama.

Families -- Illinois -- Drama.

Sons -- Death -- Psychological aspects -- Drama.

Bereavement -- Psychological aspects -- Drama.

Brothers -- Death -- Psychological aspects -- Drama.