Family Life (1971)
- Directed by
- Ken Loach
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- Australia, United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1h 50m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 7.3 of 10 from 67 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A young woman struggles with her family's expectations and ends up in a psychiatric institution. The film shows how her parents and doctors treat her.
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What happens
Family Life (US: Wednesday's Child) is a 1971 British drama film directed by Ken Loach and starring Sandy Ratcliff, Malcolm Tierney and Grace Cave. The screenplay was 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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