Product Details

• Actors: Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch, Timothy Hutton, M. Emmet Walsh
• Directors: Robert Redford
• Writers: Alvin Sargent, Judith Guest, Nancy Dowd
• Producers: Ronald L. Schwary
• Format: Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English, French
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Paramount
• DVD Release Date: February 3, 2009
• Run Time: 124 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001LL9YOU
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #46,837 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Ordinary People" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Genre: Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 3-FEB-2009
Media Type: DVD

Customer Reviews

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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Buyer beware..., February 9, 2009

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dave from indy (INDIANAPOLIS, IN USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Ordinary People (DVD)

The second disc is not even a DVD; it is a CD containing music by Echo & the Bunnymen, Erasure, INXS and a-ha. It is the same disc included on other "I love the 80's" DVDs. It has nothing to do with the movie. It is a total rip-off -- Totally misleading advertising. You get nothing on this set that was not included in prior editions of Ordinary People.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ordinary People - by Extraordinary People, October 16, 2010

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Sandra Flickstein "Grannysand" (SI, NY) - See all my reviews
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A sad, but uplifting film, the story unveils the dissolution of a family afer the tragedy of having lost a teenaged son in a boating accident. The cast is perfect! Timothy Hutton is the younger son, suicidal from having witnessed his beloved older brother perish. Judd Hirsch is his therapist. Donald Sutherland is his Dad, sympathetic to his younger son's plight, and Mary Tyler Moore is his Mom, struggling the most with the loss, while trying to avoid the horrendous pain by attempting to retrun to normalcy. The surrounding cast is equally splendid, and the directing is first rate.

8 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What is so special?, December 15, 2008

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Tim Ireland "Hudson Dad" (Leeds, NY USA) - See all my reviews

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Whats is so "special" about this special edition? Can someone tell me why it features two disks? As far as I know, Redford has never consented to do a director's commentary on the film and there are no "making of" documentaries in existence. What are they selling here?