There’s the wife, (Mary Tyler Moore. She does a wonderful job of running her house, which looks like it’s out of the pages of Better Homes and Gardens. At some fundamental level she’s selfish, she can’t really give of herself, and she has, in fact, always loved the dead older son more.

It was always so much Buck.

I just disliked the mother in this so much it was hard for me to get into the movie.

Robert Redford’s Ordinary People (1980) begins when a family loses its older son in a boating accident. That leaves three still living at home in a perfectly manicured suburban existence, and the movie is about how they finally have to deal with the ways they really feel about one another.

It's one of those movies that haunt you and stay with you.

Glad you brought that up. Thanks for sharing.

Mary Tyler Moore was magnificent in an unsympathetic role. An amazing study in the destructive power of grief when grief becomes a wall. “Don’t blame her for not loving you more than she’s able.“ This one actually changed my life.🥲

This is one of those rare cases where I argue the film is better than the novel.

So good. Heartbreaking.

Such a good movie. Thanks for selecting this one. 🙂

I never could decide if he was her favorite because he was dead, or because he was like her or because of the era. She would have been a child during WWII, and respect for those who didn't return came first.

"Are you my friend?" I am. best line in the entire movie -

Ordinary People was amazing! Hard to watch tho, it was that good.

Astonishly good performance by MTM…no Laura Petrie or Mary Richards here.

Critic: Director saw tension behind MTM’s smile.

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best performance of her life... and she's had some good ones

Ordinary People, hell of a movie. Great performances by Hirsch and Timothy Hutton.

Book was good too

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Conrad and his father learn how to adjust; the mother does not. It’s not often we get characters who face those kinds of challenges on the screen, nor directors who seek them out as Robert Redford did. Ordinary People is an intelligent, perceptive, and deeply moving film.

He does have a few friends. The girl from the hospital (Dinah Manoff) is cheerful, bright, but running from something. The girl from choir practice (Elizabeth McGovern) is sincere, kind, and able to be honest. In trying to figure them out, Conrad gets help in figuring out himself.

At the center is the surviving son, Conrad. He is utterly tortured as the film begins; his life is ruled by fear, low self-esteem, and the correct perception that he is not loved by his mother. He sees a psychiatrist (Judd Hirsch) after school. He blames himself for his brother’s death.

Ordinary People exists through the autumn and winter of one year. And what I admire most about the film is that it really does develop its characters and the changes they go through. The film is the story of these people and their situation, it shows them changing, learning, and growing.

There’s the wife, (Mary Tyler Moore. She does a wonderful job of running her house, which looks like it’s out of the pages of Better Homes and Gardens. At some fundamental level she’s selfish, she can’t really give of herself, and she has, in fact, always loved the dead older son more.

There’s the father, (Donald Sutherland) who is one of those men who wants to do and feel the right things, in his own awkward way. He’s a successful Chicago attorney who has always taken the love of his family for granted.

There’s the surviving son, Conrad, played by a wonderfully natural actor named Timothy Hutton. who always lived in his big brother’s shadow, who tried to commit suicide after the accident, who has now just returned from a psychiatric hospital.

Robert Redford’s Ordinary People (1980) begins when a family loses its older son in a boating accident. That leaves three still living at home in a perfectly manicured suburban existence, and the movie is about how they finally have to deal with the ways they really feel about one another.

We are filming today - for Back Up - today, we visit the Prosecutor’s office as they try to figure out who killed Margaret!

EXCELLENT movie by Alfred Hitchcock! It was a real suspenseful movie that you couldn’t leave for a bathroom break. 😊

"It was the least I could do." "And I always do the least I could do."

Moss Mabry was the costume designer on Dial M. I thought Grace Kelly's wardrobe was by Helen Rose like it was in Rear Window, but apparently Mabry did the design for the whole cast, beautiful red cocktail dress included. Edit Heath did the absolute bangers Kelly wore in To Catch a Thief.

Saw it again two years ago! Complex! 🗝️🔑

Love That Bob...

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I love all that stuff. As a cinephile, I know way too much useless information about movies.

Thanks for mentioning that.

Came here to say that. And that shot taken from the angle of the body in the trunk as the maid cleans up…whew!

That's one of those amazing Edith Head dresses, right? Want.

The actor who played Swan also played a minor villain in a James Bond flick AND was the dead body in another Hitchcock film, The Trouble With Harry, a quirky fave.

I don't agree that the slimey villain, really is the villain. He's more of, another victim, of the would be murderer.

"Dial M" and "Rope" were both originally stage productions, so the one room makes sense in keeping with the source material. There's also a certain heightened amount of tension built into the action taking place in a confined space.

waiting for the 4K or Criterion Collection

LOVE Grace Kelly... LOVE her. started collecting her movies, 6 so far

Dial M For Murder images

Classic

I saw this in 3-D at a Hitchcock film festival years ago, and it was one of the few instances where I felt that the added dimension enhanced the experience. It almost felt like we were inside the space.

So confined to a single room--a few exceptions--that "Dial M" could be a grand stage play.

nice art piece!

If you haven’t seen it in 3D, you haven’t seen it!