In this typical town
in this comfortable home
three ordinary people
are about to live
an extraordinary story.
It's starting all over again, the lying the covering up, the disappearing for hours. I will not stand for it. I can't stand, I really can't.
What kind of Psychiatrist are you? You don't believe in dreams.
I do believe in dreams.
Only sometimes I want to know what's happeneing when you're awake.
Go!
I don't want to see any doctors or councilors.
This is My Family!
If we have problems then we can solve those problems in the privacy of our own home.
I knew something was wrong, even before he tried to kill himself.
I think that is a very private matter!
You never came to the hosptial! How do you know about the hospital?!
I did come to the hospital Conrad, and you know that!
I just dont know how to deal with people.
Why are you hassling me? Why are you trying to make me mad?
Are you mad?
No!
...provokes me...
I'd never have let them put electricity through my head.
Blame me for the whole thing
Can't you see anything except in terms of how it affects you?
I miss it sometimes...
...the hospital.
That was a hospital.
This is the real world.
did it hurt?
Never really talked about it.
How long you gonna punish yourself? When you gonna quit?
I loved him.
What the hell is happening?
She hates me. Can't you see that?
Mothers don't hate their sons!
I mean there's someone besides your mother you gotta forgive...
You better make sure that your kids are good and safe.
And then you come to me, and tell me how to be happy!
Do you love me?
Do you really love me?
I just did one wrong thing.
What was the one wrong thing you did?
Donald Sutherland
Mary Tyler Moore
Judd Hirsch
Timothy Hutton
In an extraordinary story
of Ordinary People