The Best Film

Ordinary People (1980)
(Based on the novel by Judith Guest)
Directed by Robert Redford

Memorable lines:

Beth Jarrett (Mary Tyler Moore) to her husband Calvin (Donald Sutherland) in reference to their son Conrad (Timothy Hutton) : Hate him! How could I hate him? Mothers don't hate their sons! Is that what he told you? You see how you believe everything he tells you? And you can't do the same for me, you can't! God I don't know what anyone wants from me anymore!

Calvin Jarrett (Sutherland) to his wife Beth (Moore) : We would have been all right if there hadn't been any mess. But you can't handle mess. You need everything neat and easy. I don't know. Maybe you can't love anybody. It was so much Buck. When Buck died, it was like you buried all your love with him, and I don't understand that, I just don't know, I don't... maybe it wasn't even Buck; maybe it was just you. Maybe, finally, it was the best of you that you buried. But whatever it was... I don't know who you are. I don't know what we've been playing at. So I was crying. Because I don't know if I love you any more. And I don't know what I'm going to do without that.

The mother-son conflict:

Conrad (Hutton) : You woulda visited Buck if he was in the hospital.

Beth (Moore) : Buck would have never been in the hospital!