Hello, fellow movie fans.

I'm Lily Percy, and I'll be your guide this week as I talk with Dear Sugar's Steve Almond

about the groundbreaking 80s movie that changed his life, Ordinary People.

If you've seen the movie, you'll soon understand why Steve connected so deeply with it.

But if you haven't, don't worry, we're going to provide all the details you need to understand and feel all the feelings.

One of the gifts that movies give us is the ability to see ourselves on screen, to maybe see characters or even emotions represented that we haven't ever seen anywhere

else, that we can't even talk about or give voice to.

And that's something that ordinary people does beautifully.

It's really hard to talk about male vulnerability, to talk about depression, to talk about

sadness, to talk about not being okay when you're a teenager.

And yet the character of Conrad does that in every line that he speaks

and in every facial expression and moment of silence that he represents in the film.

So do I do tell you my dreams?

I don't hold much talking dreams.

No, what kind of psychiatrists are you?

They all believe in dreams.

Really?

What's going on?

I just feel so...

What?

Jumpy. I don't know.

What?

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