The Family Way

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The Family Way

1966,

1h 55m,

Comedy/

Drama

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75%

8 Reviews

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82%

500+ Ratings

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8 Reviews

82%

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500+ Ratings

Young newlyweds Arthur (Hywel Bennett) and Jenny Fitton (Hayley Mills) want nothing more than to get their marriage started on the right foot. But before they can depart for their honeymoon in Spain, they have to spend their first night together at the home of Arthur's parents, Ezra (John Mills) and Lucy (Marjorie Rhodes). The couple is prevented from having any intimacy, but it only gets worse. They find out that their trip to Spain is canceled, which sets the tone for a rocky few weeks.

Stewart Allen

Arizona Republic

Mar 30, 2022

In The Family Way, the adults act like children and the children try to act like adults.

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Bosley Crowther

New York Times

Apr 30, 2020

The possibilities of serious complications are studiously forgone in favor of folksiness and pathos, which are pleasingly presented but awfully thin.

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

Apr 30, 2020

4/5

This British movie from the Boulting brothers flares like a struck match with broad comedy, fierce sentimentality and a strange dark sense of life's painfulness...

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David Parkinson

Radio Times

Apr 30, 2020

4/5

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.

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Richard Schickel

LIFE

Aug 30, 2019

It takes intelligence to find genuine drama within the common lot, and real sensitivity to make of it something as consistently touching and funny as The Family Way.

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Tony Mastroianni

Cleveland Press

Jan 17, 2019

Warm, perceptive and ingratiatingly human.

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Hagrid P

Aug 31, 2018

Painful, but very true story about youth getting married and the social conventions and expectations that can often hurt individuals inadvertently. I loved that it was in Bolton, what a town.

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Roy Boulting

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Hayley Mills

Jenny Fitton

Hywel Bennett

Arthur Fitton

John Mills

Ezra Fitton

Marjorie Rhodes

Lucy Fitton

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Synopsis

Young newlyweds Arthur (Hywel Bennett) and Jenny Fitton (Hayley Mills) want nothing more than to get their marriage started on the right foot. But before they can depart for their honeymoon in Spain, they have to spend their first night together at the home of Arthur's parents, Ezra (John Mills) and Lucy (Marjorie Rhodes). The couple is prevented from having any intimacy, but it only gets worse. They find out that their trip to Spain is canceled, which sets the tone for a rocky few weeks.

Director: Roy Boulting
Producer: John Boulting
Screenwriter: Bill Naughton
Production Co: Boulting Brothers
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: British English
Release Date (DVD): Jan 27, 2009
Runtime: 1h 55m

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