Thanks to Fellini's Casanova, Donald Sutherland is now one of my favourite actors and I've checked out which films he have been in and I've found some really good ones. One is Ordinary People (1980) by Robert Redford. Donald Sutherland plays a father in a family that's dealing with the loss of a son, who drowned in an accident and left behind him mother, father and younger brother. It's the younger brother Conrad who has the main part in this film and the actor Timothy Hutton is giving an amazing performance. I don't know if I've ever seen a teenager/young adult act better. And then, as mentioned, we have the great Donald Sutherland and great Mary Tyler Moore, who's playing the emotionally distant mother who finds it hard to express any affection towards the son alive. She is also a classic 'keeping up appearances'-person, she wants everything to look good in front of other people.
Sutherland gives a great performance as the sympathetic father who tries to help his son and understand his feelings, and who's the one who tries to hold the family together.
Enough text! See it. Apart from minor cliches it's a great film which draw me in.
Here's a scene:
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