Where the Difference Begins

Name: Where the Difference Begins
Genre: Drama
Released: 1961-12-15
Duration: 1 h 35 min
Rating: 5.8
Cast: Leslie Sands, Nigel Stock, Barry Foster

TV Movie
1961
1h 35m

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5.8/10

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Drama

Wilf's wife Alice is dying. He has sent for his two sons. Edgar, a successful scientist, has brought his wife. Richard, a disillusioned artist who has stumbled into teaching and who is in th... Read allWilf's wife Alice is dying. He has sent for his two sons. Edgar, a successful scientist, has brought his wife. Richard, a disillusioned artist who has stumbled into teaching and who is in the throes of a divorce, has brought his heavily-pregnant fiancee. All started life as worki... Read allWilf's wife Alice is dying. He has sent for his two sons. Edgar, a successful scientist, has brought his wife. Richard, a disillusioned artist who has stumbled into teaching and who is in the throes of a divorce, has brought his heavily-pregnant fiancee. All started life as working-class and socialists. It emerges that Wilf and Alice made enormous sacrifices to put th... Read all

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1/10

Great But Barely Understandable

This is a great play with great performances, but the accents are so strong an American audience will have a very tough time with it. This play has everything - the class struggle, nuclear fallout, dementia, a woman sacrificing her career for her husband ... All the knives come out when the family matriarch dies. Mother and father were members of the working class who believed in post-war socialist Britain. They sent their sons to good schools to help them deal with the evil capitalists, but the sons come back changed men - they want the things that capitalism can give them. One son is now a scientist and a prig. The other lives off his rich wife but has numerous affairs and now has a pregnant girlfriend to deal with. This play is in the tradition of Room at the Top, Look Back in Anger, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and all the other films in the so-called British New Wave. You'd be better off watching them because you would be able to understand the dialogue.