Beah Richards, Cecil Kellaway, Isabel Sanford
The daughter of a well-to-do white family comes home from a vacation to announce her intentions of marrying a well-to-do black physician. The prospective in-laws must come to terms with the implicatio...( read more
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DVD Release Date: May 22, 2001
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January 3, 2009One of the all-time greatest movies you will ever see: Sidney Poitier in a tour de force, Katharine Hepburn in an Academy Award-winning role, and Spencer Tracy's final role as the father who just can't seem to change with the times all come together to easily overcome the film's ...( read more)
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December 3, 2008Absolutely delightful. Again, I need a day where I can write reviews for all these great films.
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June 25, 2008My big problem with Ordinary People was that it was full of soulless white folks maneuvering through potent issues without offering much insight on anything. It isn't a bad movie, and I could relate to a lot of the struggles of the son, but it was so largely disengaging that most...( read more)
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November 15, 2009November 13, 2009. watched it in Sociology class, surprisingly not bad, Katharine Hepburn is the greatest!
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October 7, 2009Well, the setting is limited to the girl's house, so can't say much about it. But. it's set in the Bay Area (one of the scenes shows the famed Golden Gate in the vicinity). Rated 4 thanks to the brilliant performances as usual from Tracy, Hepburn, and Poitier. I like the fact tha...( read more)
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September 29, 2009A first rate and very poignant drama. What a cast. Sadly, the last teaming of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. Incredibly well written, nicely directed, great costumes and score, well edited. Beah Richards is particularly good. She gives a magnificently subtle performance. He...( read more)
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September 18, 2009Stanley Kramer manages this time a very controversial topic in a very masterful, comic, realistic and careful way. A very strong moral lesson is involved, and you have to hear and see the final speech at the end of the film to believe it. Much of that is true. A must see. Spectac...( read more)
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October 23, 2004
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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