Movie
Family Life
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1971-11-17
- Runtime
- 108 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Kestrel Films, EMI Films
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Sandy Ratcliff as Janice Baildon
- Bill Dean as Mr. Baildon
- Grace Cave as Mrs. Baildon
- Michael Riddall as Dr. Donaldson
- Malcolm Tierney as Tim
- Hilary Martin as Barbara Baildon
- Alan MacNaughtan as Dr. Caswell
- Johnny Gee as Man in Garden
- Bernard Atha
- Edwin Brown
- Freddie Clemson
- Alec Coleman
Crew
- Ken Loach - Director
- David Mercer - Screenplay
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