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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.
Feb 18, 1972 · Family Life: Directed by Ken Loach. With Sandy Ratcliff, Bill Dean, Grace Cave, Malcolm Tierney. A family is shattered over the daughter's forced abortion. As she rebels against her family and their traditional, authoritarian, typical-of-the-time norms, she is hospitalized and otherwise mistreated.
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.
In Family Life, a troubled nineteen-year-old’s mental condition is exacerbated by her unfeeling relatives, and the cold and ineffective solutions of medical practitioners, who prescribe drug and electro-convulsive therapy.
The first film of the nineteen-seventies from director Ken Loach concentrates on Janice (Sandy Ratcliff), a 19-year-old girl existing in 1970s Britain, who is not getting along with her conventional parents.
Jan 5, 2023 · 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.
