Ordinary People (1980)

I was unsure watching this what Donald Sutherland was doing wrong. It must have been something because, surely, Mary Tyler Moore couldn't be the bad guy.

I remember two slight controversies about this movie. One was that it was about rich people but it was called Ordinary People, like this was how Hollywood thought everybody lived.

The other was that Barbra Streisand fans were outraged that director Robert Redford got an Oscar for this, his first movie, and Streisand didn't get one three years later for Yentl. Ordinary People was a serious drama about a family who lost one son in an accident and nearly lost his guilt-stricken brother to suicide while Yentl was just crap.

Judd Hirsch who was on Taxi at the time plays the son's psychiatrist. 

Available on the Criterion Channel.