Black comedy about a couple struggling to look after their severely disabled daughter. Stars Alan Bates, Janet Suzman, Peter Bowles, Sheila Gish, Joan Hickson and more.
Playwright Peter Nichols adapted his own blackly comic 1967 Tony Award-winning play for this confrontational film version by director Peter Medak.
Alan Bates and Janet Suzman play a married couple struggling to come to terms with their daughter's disability using comedy and cruelty to dispel the desperation of their situation....
Peter Nichols adapts his award-winning play to devastating effect in Peter Medak's powerful black comedy about an ordinary couple struggling to cope with a severely disabled child.
School teacher Brian (Alan Bates) and his wide Sheila (Janet Suzman) are the parents of young Jo (Elizabeth Rabillard), a child afflicted with...