Skip Channel4 main Navigation
Explore Channel4
Food
Homes
Film
4Car
News
See All
Ordinary People 124 minutes, United States (1980), 15
Average user rating (5 / 6 votes)

Robert Redford directs Donald Sutherland and Mary Tyler Moore in this multi-Oscar winning family drama. Overcome with grief following the death of a teenage son, an affluent American family disintegrates into dysfunction

Director:

Ordinary People Overview

Promotion

Read the review

Ordinary People: Robert Redford's directorial debut picked up four Oscars (including best director) and swiftly established him as a serious presence behind the camera. Seriousness, in fact, is the dominant tone. As matters progress, this simple tale of loss and repression becomes something immensely powerful...
Read the Ordinary People full review

Share this page

If you like this movie...

In our cinema section

Advertisement

Today on Film4 Sun 29 Nov

Sahara 18:40

Sahara
Matthew McConaughey stars as intrepid treasure seeker Dirk Pitt, whose obsession with a long-lost Civil War battleship takes him across west Africa and into a plot involving warlords and water pollution. Action adventure based on the books of Clive Cussler

Latest Films

In Cinemas

On DVD

UK Box Office
Top 10


Channel 4 © 2009. Channel 4 is not responsible for the content of external websites.