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Overview
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Director:
Writers:
Bill Naughton (play)
Bill Naughton (screenplay)
Release Date:
8 February 1968 (Denmark) more
Tagline:
A girl, a boy, a tender, funny, terrible wedding night. more
Plot:
Compassionate look at the troubles of two young newlyweds, who's marriage has yet to be consummated. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
5 wins more
NewsDesk:
Famed British Filmmaker Roy Boulting Dies At 87
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 7 November 2001)
User Comments:
There's nowt as queer as folk more (21 total)
Cast
(Credited cast) | Hayley Mills | ... | Jenny Fitton |
| Hywel Bennett | ... | Arthur Fitton |
 | John Mills | ... | Ezra Fitton |
| Marjorie Rhodes | ... | Lucy Fitton |
| Avril Angers | ... | Liz Piper |
| John Comer | ... | Leslie Piper |
| Barry Foster | ... | Joe Thompson |
| Wilfred Pickles | ... | Uncle Fred |
| Liz Fraser | ... | Molly Thompson |
| Andy Bradford | ... | Eddie (as Andrew Bradford) |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Hazel Bainbridge | ... | Mrs. Bell |
| Helen Booth | ... | Mrs. Lee |
| Fanny Carby | ... | Mrs. Stone |
| Diana Coupland | ... | Mrs. Rose |
| Lesley Daine | ... | Dora |
| Colin Gordon | ... | Mr. Hutton |
| Ruth Gower | ... | Mrs. Pike |
| Murray Head | ... | Geoffrey Fitton |
| Margaret Lacey | ... | Mrs. Harris |
| Harry Locke | ... | Mr. Stubbs |
| Maureen O'Reilly | ... | Miss Hunt |
| Robin Parkinson | ... | Mr. Phillips |
| Ruth Trouncer | ... | Marriage Counsellor |
| Thorley Walters | ... | The Vicar |
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115 min
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Color (Eastmancolor)
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Finland:K-16 | Sweden:11 | UK:AA (original rating) | UK:15 (video rating)
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This film won every Award it was nominated for. more
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[last lines]
Ezra Fitton:
That's life, son. At your age it'll make you laugh but one day it'll make you bloody cry!
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Referenced in Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies (2001) more
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A late entry to the British kitchen sink cycle, which suggests that if there was one thing that the upstanding, chapel going, gossipping classes disapproved of more than sex before marriage, then it was failing to fulfill one's conjugal duties afterwards. Which is unfortunate for a willing, but unable, Hywell Bennett and his virginal bride, portrayed by a divine Hayley Mills. Bennett is good, and Mills is suitably wide eyed and adorable, which in fairness is all the script really asks of her, but the film belongs to the senior cast members. John Mills, ironically portraying his real life daughter's father-in-law, succeeds in being comical and pathetic yet immensely noble, and Marjorie Rhodes is equally compelling as his wife, who loves, yet at times, quietly loathes him. The Family Way is a touching and amusing look at the social mores of Northern England circa the mid-sixties, and a chance to see Hayley Mills' bare bottom!