Family Life (1971 British film)
| Family Life | |
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| Directed by | Ken Loach |
| Produced by | Tony Garnett |
| Screenplay by | David Mercer |
| Starring |
Sandy Ratcliff Malcolm Tierney Grace Cave |
| Music by | Marc Wilkinson |
| Cinematography | Charles Stewart |
| Edited by | Roy Watts |
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Production
company |
Anglo-EMI
Kestrel Films |
| Distributed by | MGM-EMI (UK theatrical) Cinema 5 Distributing (US theatrical) |
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Release date
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Running time
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108 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £180,000 |
| Box office | $1,827,374SEK ($291,648USD) |
Family Life (US: Wednesday's 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 BBC's Wednesday Play series first transmitted by the BBC in March 1967, which was also written by Mercer and directed by Loach,
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 she's 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.
Half the budget was provided by the National Film Finance Corporation the other half by Nat Cohen and Anglo-EMI. The film was screened at the New York Film Festival on 3 October 1972.
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