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Ordinary People, 1980
The film Ordinary People, adapted from a 1976 book of the same name, follows teenager Conrad Jarrett through depression and therapy as he attempts to cope with the death of his older brother. While Ordinary People — Robert Redford's directorial debut — primarily focuses on the dysfunctional Jarretts and how they deal with each other, there are some comparisons to The Catcher in the Rye. Holden Caulfield's brother also dies young, and the impetus for his drunken wandering in New York City may lie largely in his inability to deal with death much in the same way as Conrad.

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