シカゴ郊外の住宅街。弁護士のカルビンは長男をボート事故で失って以来落胆したままの日々を送り、妻のベスは同じ事故で生き残った次男コンラッドへつらく当たっていた。そんなコンラッドも自分が兄の死の現場にいあわせたという事実の重みに耐えかねて自殺未遂を図り、心の病を治すための施設に入院。４カ月後、退院したコンラッドは自分の学校に再び通いだすが、カルビンはそんな彼を今度は精神分析医のセラピーに通わせる。
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製作費: $6,000,000 (9億円)
興行収入: $54,766,923 (82億円)
推定収支: $48,766,923 (73億円)
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_**Potent drama with Hutton, Sutherland, Moore and Hirsch**_ A family in an affluent neighborhood north of Chicago tries to recover after a tragedy. Timothy Hutton plays the troubled son who gets help from a therapist (Judd Hirsch) while Donald Sutherland & Mary Tyler Moore play the seemingly okay parents. “Ordinary People” (1980) was Robert Redford’s debut movie in the director’s chair and it was a huge success. The story is two-pronged: It’s a coming-of-age drama about the anxious son at home, school, therapy and his relationships with the fairer sex, as well as a marital drama about the parents. This was Hutton’s first theatrical movie, but you wouldn’t know that by his powerhouse performance, which is on the level of Brando. It’s interesting how simple, realistic drama can be more compelling than some overblown “blockbuster” with an explosion every five minutes. Winsome Elizabeth McGovern is a highlight as one of the girls the son dates. On the negative side, the storm sequences are pretty artificial, reminiscent of a TV flick, and the story almost drowns in its unrelenting drama in the last act (I said “almost”). The film runs 2 hours, 4 minutes, and was mostly shot in suburbs north of Chicago, e.g. Lake Forest and Highland Park. GRADE: B
