Review of Ordinary People

Not a bad film, but I find it very hard to believe that this won both Best Picture AND Best Director, not to mention Best Actor and Best Writing Oscars! IMHO, this should have been one of those "After School Specials". The Best Writing Oscar is th hardest to believe. All of that cliché ridden "Why does everything always have to be about YOU?! What about me? I don't know if I love you anymore" type dialog is just sickening. All of the emotion is so predictable and overacted. It even features a scene with the angry young son acting out and running away from everyone, right to his psychiatrist. Classic "After School Special" fodder. I'm not sorry that I spent two hours watching it, but through the whole thing I just kept saying "WOW. FOUR Oscars? No way!". It might seem stupid, but I would have enjoyed it A LOT more if this was just another Ordinary Movie that didn't win such big awards.