Family Life (1971 British film)
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9/10 Letterboxd Genre Drama Duration Language English | 7.8/10 IMDb Director Ken Loach Music director Marc Wilkinson Country United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 2 December 1971 (1971-12-02) (UK)
5 October 1972 (1972-10-05) (USA) Writer David Mercer (play), David Mercer (screenplay) Cast Sandy Ratcliff (Janice Baildon), Bill Dean (Mr. Baildon), Grace Cave (Mrs. Baildon), Michael Riddall (Dr. Donaldson), Malcolm Tierney (Tim)Nominations BAFTA United Nations Award Similar movies Related Ken Loach movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Janice (Sandy Ratcliff), a 19-year-old girl living in 1970s Britain, is not getting along with her old-fashioned parents. When she gets pregnant, her mother (Grace Cave) and father (Bill Dean) pressure her into getting an abortion. Emotionally shut out by her parents and unable to keep a job, Janice becomes suicidal and has a nervous breakdown. Her parents have her committed to a mental hospital, where she suffers devastating side effects from intense shock therapy.
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Family Life (US: Wednesdays Child) is a 1971 British drama film directed by Ken Loach from a screenplay by David Mercer. It is a remake of In Two Minds, an episode of the BBCs Wednesday Play series first transmitted by the BBC in March 1967, which was also written by Mercer and directed by Loach,
A 19 years old London girl received agressive psychiatric treatments for her schizophrenic behaviour by a doctor who still wants her family to insure the guard of the child without any regards to the facts that it is this family who's agravating her situation.
Plot
A young woman, Janice, is living with her restrictive and conservative parents, who lead a dull working-class life, and consider their daughter to be "misbehaving" whenever shes trying to find her own way in life. When she becomes pregnant, they force her into abortion, and hypocritically blame her for "upsetting them" when she is unable to cope with the emotional and mental effect this has on her. Janice is subjected to shockingly self-righteous and ignorant doctors.
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Production
Half the budget was provided by the National Film Finance Corporation the other half by Nat Cohen and Anglo-EMI. The film was first screened at the New York Film Festival on 2 October 1971.
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