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The Family Way

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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 are 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.

Critics Reviews

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Stewart Allen Arizona Republic 03/30/2022
In The Family Way, the adults act like children and the children try to act like adults. Go to Full Review Bosley Crowther New York Times 04/30/2020
The possibilities of serious complications are studiously forgone in favor of folksiness and pathos, which are pleasingly presented but awfully thin. Go to Full Review Peter Bradshaw Guardian 04/30/2020
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... Go to Full Review David Parkinson Radio Times 04/30/2020
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. Go to Full Review Richard Schickel LIFE 08/30/2019
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. Go to Full Review Tony Mastroianni Cleveland Press 01/17/2019
Warm, perceptive and ingratiatingly human. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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Steve D 07/27/2023 Not enough to it to entertain. See more Autumn M 01/08/2023 The Family Way is the story of newlyweds who are having trouble consummating their relationship. It was hard for me to imagine a young couple living with the groom's parents, but I suppose it was common at the time the movie is set and also in British culture? Suspension aside, it was a funny and very human movie. Hayley Mills was okay, but it was really the supporting cast that kept the story moving. Recommended. See more 06/26/2021 Wonderful film about impotence. A young husband has a problem consummating his marriage. See more john k 08/29/2020 The movie is a part of family history in the old days with people's ways and attitude that is long forgotten unfortunately See more 06/14/2019 Excellent cast and charaterisations. Authenic North of England locations and ambience. See more s r @ScottR 08/31/2018 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. See more Read all reviews
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Cast & Crew

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Roy Boulting

Director

Hayley Mills

Jenny Fitton

Hywel Bennett

Arthur Fitton

John Mills

Ezra Fitton

Marjorie Rhodes

Lucy Fitton

Avril Angers

Liz Piper

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Movie Info

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 are 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