1966 Directed by John Boulting, Roy Boulting
Young newlyweds Arthur and Jenny Fitton 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. 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.
Hayley Mills Hywel Bennett John Mills Marjorie Rhodes Avril Angers John Comer Wilfred Pickles Murray Head Liz Fraser Barry Foster Andy Bradford Thorley Walters Colin Gordon Robin Parkinson Lesley Daine Ruth Trouncer Harry Locke Maureen O'Reilly Michael Cadman Hazel Bainbridge Diana Coupland Fanny Carby Helen Booth Margaret Lacey Rosalind Elliot Windsor Davies Kathy Staff Keith Marsh
Luna de miel en familia, Lua-de-Mel ao Meio-Dia, 婚之惑
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OK, this is one of those movies that get you by surprise one way or another. John Mills has very much to do with it: he is excellent, in the most moving of acting manners, as the overbearing father of an English lower-middle-class family who, deep down himself, loves his son tenderly. In truth, the whole production is a first-rate comedy (based on a Bill Naughton's play) about life and the more or less privacy you enjoy in order to deal with it when you are surrounded all the time by small-town gossip and stay at your parents' house. Alongside your wife. On your honeymoon.
Made by the Boulting brothers --John was the producer--, The Family Way co-stars Hayley Mills…
"...John Mills delivers one of his career highlights as Ezra Fitton, capturing the comedy of the man, but also the tragedy. Watch the scene at the reception where he challenges Arthur to ‘the elbow game’, an arm-wrestling contest, and see the look in his tear-pricked, sweating and anguished face as his son almost bests him. There’s so much in that one silent moment, so much shared in just the looks between both Mills and Bennett, that says everything about the moment when the child has become a man and how some fathers simply aren’t prepared for it to happen. Inevitably, Arthur realises that his father’s pride means the world to him and so he throws the contest to allow him…
“It could’ve been him.”
I’m literally speechless that was a fucking CLASSICCCCCCCCC
The 1960s look absolutely awful!
The best film I've seen by the Boulting brothers, either separately or together, The Family Way is at once a very funny sex comedy, a deep musing on masculinity, closeted sexuality, and breaking free of the reigns of familial tradition.
I almost, but only almost, wish it had dispensed with its bits of broad comedy and focused more on the serious stuff here. But its co-directors find a remarkable balance between everything, especially considering they're talking about so much. The actual best scenes here don't even involve newlyweds Hywel Bennett and Hayley Mills, although they are both very good.
John Mills' trying to explain why he took his 'best mate' on his honeymoon to his…
So I wanted to watch this film because I watched "Twisted nerve" and totally enjoyed it then noticing that same directors and main actors did this film with Paul McCartney circa 1966 doing the soundtrack(He is credited whether that is true is for someone with deeper pockets/time than mine to really investigate or criticize). The story is very British in its telling and really is about the worrying of neighbours and their prying eyes of a couple dealing with an (ahem!) intimate issue of a young newly married couple while having to live with his parents. It's labeled as a comedy but this thing goes into some dark sad places. Really the standouts are John Mills as the dad who…
There I was, grazing on lush green shoots, my thoughts drifting, when I caught movement in the tall grass. Before I could process what I was seeing, the tiger was on top of me, tearing me to bloody shreds.
Stay with this one. It starts a bit slow, even swerving into Afterschool Special territory, but it’s all just setup for a no mercy, laugh-through-tears ambush. Apex predator John Mills is so goddamn stealthy here, you’ll be smiling ear-to-ear before you realize he’s eaten the heart right out of your chest!
TUBI or not To Be #3: a 1960s marriage/sex comedy condemened by the Pope and featuring Paul McCartney's first film soundtrack
The sort of film that put me off this TUBI project for a couple of months because I expected some dated 60s nonsense. I did not expect a reasonably progressive comedy which sensitively explores toxic masculinity, sexual anxiety, and is also lowkey feminist as it does it. That might be giving too much credit to an ostensibly light comedy but the writer's resentment at 1960s conservatism and "but what will the neighbour's think?!" mentality comes across very strongly. I'm impressed.
It's also quite good for a film to capture the unique experience of being trained to project films and having the qualified projectionist staring at you as you nervously prepare for a changeover.
I literally only watched this because Paul McCartney did the soundtrack even though I previously heard the soundtrack and didn't like it.
Amusing and heartfelt, this comedy of manners shows the inter dynamics between a community of British working-class and does it with cleverness. It's a light romantic comedy, sometimes slowing down due to repetition and length, but charms with wit and well-formed characters. Hayley Mills is very likable, playing the sweet and optimistic bride.
not to stereotype british people but i feel like this movie probably had a profound impact on noel and liam gallagher in their youths
Everything was scandalous to the British back then.
Not content with considering sex before marriage a taboo drama, they even think no sex after marriage is a huge bombshell trauma.
But that’s not all they should be worrying about.
There’s a huge tonal u-turn in the film just past halfway. Starts like another quaint and beguiling kitchen sink drama about young newlyweds trying to adjust to wedlock with their families and friends so close quarters.
Then my god it turned into something else there.
Adultery, infidelity, dysfunctional parent-child relationships, unhappy marriages, inferred closeted homosexuality, toxic masculinity and sexual paranoia...
Incredibly progressive for a British film from 1966. Surely this must’ve caused a few ripples.
Unexpectedly smart and ferociously well acted…
