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Timothy Hutton won a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Actor in a Supporting Role and New Star of the Year in a Motion Picture - Male. Mary Tyler Moore won one for Best Motion Picture Actress - Drama.  The play that Donald Sutherland and Mary Tyler Moore watch is "Same Time Next Year", which was made into a movie starring Alan Alda and Ellen Burstyn. -Thanks to David BrownThe film has 2 taglines: 1.) "Some films you watch, others you feel." 2.)"Everything is in its proper place... Except the past." This film is currently Robert Redford's only Oscar win (Best Director; Best Picture). Despite a number of critically acclaimed roles, the closest he has come to winning an Oscar for acting was a nomination for "The Sting" in 1974. -Thanks to JamesDonald Sutherland was nominated for a Golden Globe for the film for Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama. So were Judd Hirsch for Best Motion Picture Actor in a Supporting Role & Alvin Sargent for Best Screenplay - Motion Picture. Alvin Sargent won the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium. He also won an Oscar for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium. Judd Hirsch was nominated for an Oscar for the film for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. So was Mary Tyler Moore for Best Actress in a Leading Role. To date, Timothy Hutton is the youngest male actor to win an Academy Award and the youngest to win in the Supporting Actor category. He was 19 when he won for "Ordinary People". -Thanks to Shann MaddoxAdam Baldwin who played the bully 'Stillman' that picked on Conrad, played a very depressed, suicidal teen, Ricky Linderman, guilty over the death of his brother in the movie, "My Bodyguard". It was his first role that came out the same year, 1980. -Thanks to GingerTimothy Hutton's father, actor Jim Hutton, passed away prior to filming. Timothy Hutton said that he didn't use his mourning as a basis for Conrad's depression. In a cruel irony, Mary Tyler-Moore's only child, Ritchie Moore, was killed in a tragic accident by a defective gun prior to making this film. Elizabeth McGovern dated Sean Penn in the early '80s and at one point, they were even engaged! -Thanks to Stephanie« Click here to add some Ordinary People trivia Rediscover your favorites! If you like Ordinary People or 80's Drama / Historic classics, then be sure to check out this list: ..... Outsiders ..... Elephant Man ..... Rain Man ..... Drugstore Cowboy ..... Stand By Me ..... Wall Street ..... Mask ..... Amadeus ..... Full Metal Jacket ..... Witness ..... Breakfast Club ..... Glory ..... Platoon ..... Scarface ..... Six Weeks ..... Urban Cowboy .....[More] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Filmed in Lake Forest, Illinois. Opening scene begins in Choir with the traditional blue & gold colors of Lake Forest High School worn by cheerleaders in uniform. There must have been a game that day.... [Thanks to Betsey Clark] Lake Forest amazingly still looks EXACTLY the same, even after nearly 25 years. The interior of Lake Forest High School has been completely re-done as of the mid-1990's. However, the outside of the school remains the same. [Thanks to Alisa Steady and Angeli] The golf course scenes were filmed at the Apple Valley Country Club in Apple Valley CA. [Thanks to Joanna Rodriguez] My guess is Jarett's house is by the lake because also I can hear the lake in the background during the movie. The grandparent's house is located on Lake Road. Also the Murray's house, the Jarett's friends' home is located on Greenbay at the T intersection of Greenbay and woodland road. [Thanks to libby] The primary family residence used in the film is located on Greenbay road. The architecture and the VERY noticeable gravel driveway is customary in the older parts of Lake Forest, in between downtown Market Square and the lake. The first part of the movie shows the First Presbyterian Church on the corner of Deerpath and Sheridan. Also are shown some beach scenes. Since the time the movie was filmed there has been a very nice beach constructed where those plain docks are scene in the movie. Now there are wide brick paver pathways along the beach and a small yacht club where people can store and launch their sailboats. The large stately building shown several times throughout the movie is the Lake Forest High School. Many people who drive past it think it must be a private school, but it is indeed the public school. The swimming pool is located at Lake Forest College. IT still looks EXACTLY the same today. Same yellow paint and plain brick walls. The scene where Conrad is skipping through town shows Triangle Park, with the famous copper deer that stands stately overlooking it, the Christian Science Church, and right down the street is the Lake Forest Library. All of are on Deerpath Road. This scene was funny though. At first Conrad is shown skipping east towards downtown and then they show him in front of the library skipping west... granted, the library is east of the Church and park... so the directors didn't exactly edit the film factually. The part of the movie where Calvin and his friend are running is at Forest Park, which is a large park on Lake Drive overlooking Lake Michigan. There are also large limestone stairs going down to the beach that I was talking about before, however, I dont think the stairs were there when the movie was filmed. The park still looks the same today, with the same stone light posts and everything. Even the bench looking through the trees to Lake Michigan stands there still today. The parts in the film where Conrad visits the shrink are in Highland Park. I don't know exactly where in Highland Park, but I'm sure it's around downtown, near Davis Street. The part of the movie when Conrad runs away after he finds out his friend killed herself are shot in Market Square. I could even recognize the shoe store that is on the corner. He calls the shrink at a pay phone at the Lake Forest Train Station. The McDonald's he and his friend go to is no longer a McD's. Today it is a Burger King, and it has since been remodled, but still with an 80's flair. The scene with Calvin and Beth in Houston is not Houston at all. It is the Deerpath Golf Club on Deerpath road. I drive past the golf club everyday, and I can tell by the layout of the fairways and the trees etc that it is Deerpath. I felt sorry for the actors though. In Houston it may have been 65 or 70 and they had to dress like it was, but Im sure in Lake Forest it was 30 and windy. The ladies didnt even have on jackets. BURRR! Well, I think I've got all of the scenes down in the movie. I guarantee that they are all very accurate. I still have yet to find the Jarrett's house. I know I've seen it before. From the shot of Jarrett running out of his grandparent's house, I can tell it's a house in east Lake Forest too. Probably not too far from Lake Drive. I'll find that one too. OH!! And I don't know which mall that was in the movie where Beth is shopping for Christmas, but I think it was Northbrook Court in Northbrook, about 10 minutes away. Also, just as a side note. I was amazed to see the actors driving American cars. The only American cars you see in Lake Forest today are VERY few Suburbans and even fewer Cadillacs. Nearly everyone drives a Lexus SUV, there are many Range Rovers and Bentleys, and ofcourse many have a Ferrari tucked away in the garage for sunny days. The cocktail parties are still the same today as they were in the movie... except... noone has lime green carpet anymore. It has been replaced with marble! [Our eternal thanks to Jesse Williams for all the above superb locations info] The scene in the restaurant with Conrad and the girl from the psychiatric hospital was filmed at "The Original House of Pancakes" on Green Bay Road in Wilmette. A photo of Robert Redford, taken at the time of the shooting for the film, hangs above the cash register at the front of the restaurant. [Thanks to S. Jordheim] Can you help? Do you know any of the Lake Forest, Illinois (or any other) filming locations used for Ordinary People? [Please send them in] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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The original score was composed by veteran composer Marvin Hamlisch. It's very fitting to the movie's emotional content, but very similar to "Terms of Endearment". The music soundtrack of Ordinary People is Canon In D. -Thanks to Lia_iko« Click here to add new music trivia for Ordinary People Soundtrack Available: Never On Any Format | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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