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Welcome to the LitCharts study guide on Judith Guest's Ordinary People. Created by the original team behind SparkNotes, LitCharts are the world's best literature guides.
From Page to Screen. Ordinary People was adapted into a film in 1980. Directed by Robert Redford and starring Donald Sutherland and Mary Tyler Moore, the film eventually won four Academy Awards—including the year's title for Best Picture.
Too Hot to Handle? Ordinary People's challenging content is not without its critics. The American Library Association lists the novel as one of the 100 books "most frequently challenged" between 1990 and 1999, making it a mainstay of many Banned Books Week reading lists.