Directed by David Lean
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
David Lean's directorial debut spends 20 years with a typical middle class British family between the world wars. Frank and Ethel Gibbons have the usual problems with their young adult children. In particular is Queenie, a young woman who pines for a finer lifestyle. She runs away from home with a married man and breaks her mother's heart. Politics often intrude into their lives as well. An old war buddy lives next door and Frank often drinks and reminisces. They grew older, Queenie comes home, there are some unexpected deaths. It's all finely acted and occasionally moving, but episodic and very, very British.
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