The Family Way
1967
The Family Way Jenny (Hayley Mills)and Arthur Fitton (Hywel Bennett) are two sensitive youngsters who fail to consummate their recent marriage, following the vulgar ribaldry of their typically working class wedding. The situation is compunded by the couple having to live in the same house as his well-meaning but interfering .. Read more
| Starring | Dirk Bogarde, Chris Sarandon, Richard Attenborough, Stanley Baker |
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| Director | Joseph Losey, Roy Boulting, Jay Lewis |
| Genres | Drama |
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The Family Way
The Family Way Jenny (Hayley Mills)and Arthur Fitton (Hywel Bennett) are two sensitive youngsters who fail to consummate their recent marriage, following the vulgar ribaldry of their typically working class wedding. The situation is compunded by the couple having to live in the same house as his well-meaning but interfering parents, plus unwelcome speculation on his "performance" from the nosey neighbours. In a town that thrives on gossip, can their marriage stand the pressure? Considered highly controversial in 1966, The Family Way endures as a gentle comedy upon manners, morality and manhood.
| Starring | Dirk Bogarde, Chris Sarandon, Richard Attenborough, Stanley Baker, Michael York, Lisa Gastoni, Sarah Miles, Vivien Merchant, Jon Finch, John Mills, Delphine Seyrig, Alexander Knox, Gilbert Harding, Richard Chamberlain, Hywel Bennett, Hayley Mills, Robert Beatty, Elizabeth Sellars, Joh |
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| Director | Joseph Losey, Roy Boulting, Jay Lewis |
| Studio | OPTIMUM HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 3 hrs 31 mins |
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| Genres | Drama |
| Language | English |
| Released | DVD: 23 Jun 2003 Production year: 1967 |
| Format | DVD |
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Considered somewhat risqué on its original release, this gentle comedy can now be seen as a fond portrait of an era when sex was still taboo. Complete with a score by Paul McCartney, it recounts the experience of so many 1960s newlyweds who had to share a house with their in-laws for much of the early part of their married lives. Hywel Bennett is bang on form as the husband so wound up by cohabitation that he is unable to consummate his marriage to the equally impressive Hayley Mills. But it's her real-life dad, John Mills, who steals the show with a splendid study in working-class cantankerousness.
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Overstretched domestic farce-drama. Good scenes and performances, but it was all much sharper as a one-hour TV play.
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Feel good nostalga
Excellent if you want to watch an innocent, gentle 60's film. The Family Way is my all time favourite Hywell Bennett film. He has smouldering good looks and sexy smile, sending all ladies weak at the knees. Hayley Mills is Hayley Mills, sweet and gangly and the perfect virgin. Good twist in the tale of family life and love life.
The Accident is a strange film with lots of infidelities.The men have a good time, with no concideration for their wives. It doesn't neccessariloy make them happy so they just drink a lot!!! Strange spooky haunting film...... -
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Dark 60s British films x 2
You get TWO long films on this disc, 'Accident' and 'The Family Way'. The former is slow, sparse of dialogue, very Pinteresque, set in Oxford, a slice of a don's domestic life: you are meant, all the way through it, to wonder what unsaid thing is going on between the characters. All very subtle, interesting, but hardly dramatically moving at any point. The latter is set up north in a mill town. A young girl marries a lad who, to put it crudely, then discovers he can't 'get it up'. Gossip of this gets round the town and his problem is eventually solved. In this there are a number of worthwhile funny moments and several scenes of gritty social criticism. Both films have a dark side: that's why the Daily Mail is unlikely to dish them out amongst its freebies of old British classics. Not that I would ever read The Daily Mail!
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McCartney to score animated kids film
- 18 Jun 2009
Paul McCartney is to score his first feature film in over 40 years after signing on to create the music for an animated kids movie he wrote. The Lion King's Rob Minkoff will direct High in the Clouds, according to Daily Variety. The film chronicles an adventurous squirrels quest to find an animal sanctuary. It will mark McCartneys first effort at composing music for a movie since 1967s The Family Way. Read more
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The Family Way Jenny (Hayley Mills)and Arthur Fitton (Hywel Bennett) are two sensitive youngsters who fail to consummate their recent marriage, following the vulgar ribaldry of their typically ... -