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Ordinary People

1980 • R • 2h 4m • Drama • Paramount Pictures

Everything is in its proper place... except the past.

🍅 90% 88% MC 86 LB 4.06 IMDb 7.7

Ordinary People Box Office

Opening Weekend
$170.3K
3-day opening
Domestic Total
$52.3M
Final
Domestic Legs307.1x
Budget$6.2M
1980 Rank#10
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Box office performance
Weekend Rank Gross Chg Total Theaters Average Wks
Sep 19-21 1 $170K — $170K 6 $28.4K 1

Cast & Crew

Directed byRobert Redford
ScreenplayAlvin Sargent
Produced byRonald L. Schwary
CinematographyJohn Bailey
Music byMarvin Hamlisch
StarringDonald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch, Timothy Hutton, M. Emmet Walsh, Elizabeth McGovern, Dinah Manoff
StudioParamount Pictures

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