Directed by Robert Redford Robert Redford's first film as a director is a doozy. Ordinary People chronicles the struggle of a family to relate to each other and to themselves following the death of a teenaged son. The people left reeling in his wake are parents Beth and Calvin (Mary Tyler Moore, Donald Sutherland) and young … Continue reading Ordinary People (1980)
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House of Games (1987)
Directed by David Mamet House of Games is one of those movies about a con man in which the audience itself is supposed to be fooled. You see this in Christopher Nolan's The Prestige and in a movie like Now You See It, and such sleight of hand is a tricky thing to pull off. There are … Continue reading House of Games (1987)