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Family Life (US: Wednesday's Child) [ 2] is a 1971 British drama film directed by Ken Loach from a screenplay by David Mercer. [ 3] 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. [ 4]
18 Feb 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.
Janice is the rebellious daughter of lower-middle-class parents. Increasingly unable to cope with her behaviour, her parents seek help from a psychiatrist, and Janice is taken into residential care, ‘for her own good’.
Featuring. Sandy Ratcliff, Grace Cave, Bill Dean. Running time. 107 minutes. Ken Loach’s film remake of his earlier TV drama In Two Minds explores the treatment of a teenager’s schizophrenia.
Wednesday's Child. Janice (Sandy Ratcliff), a 19-year-old girl living in 1970s Britain, is not getting along with her old-fashioned parents. When she gets pregnant, her mother (Grace Cave) and ...
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,
