Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3760 in DVD
• Released on: 2008-10-13
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 107 minutes

Synopsis
This bittersweet drama details the lives of a young couple who are forced to marry due to a pregnancy. As they mature, they learn to love one another. Sensitive and well-acted.

Customer Reviews

For me, the Best of the Kitchen Sinkers
Actually I was introduced to Stan Barstow by the 1982 Granada TV Series starring Clive Wood as Vic, now also thankfully available on DVD at last. I read all the books in the Vic Brown trilogy and loved them, going on to read Room at the Top, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, A Taste of Honey and the rest. Then a couple of years later, Channel 4 showed this 1962 film adaptation of the first in the trilogy. John Schlesinger's first film, it in turn opened up the whole Kitchen Sink drama genre for me. I see it as the best. It's not patronising to the working class and portrays family interaction and conflict in a way I could identify with more than its rivals. The central performances, particularly Alan Bates and a giant outing by the colossus that is Thora Hird, are hugely convincing. It's quoteable too, in that way I love. Many a time have I defused a tiff with my beloved wife by saying "Yes, and I'm your husband... if you did but know it."

I'M LOVING A KIND OF LOVING
I LOVE THIS GENRE OF FILM WHETHER IT'S CALLED "KITCHEN SINK", "SIXTIES MOVIES" OR "BRITISH DRAMA" I DON'T CARE, BECAUSE I LOVE THE SIMPLICITY, HONESTY AND DEPTH OF CHARACTERISATION WHICH IS ONLY POSSIBLE WITH GREATS SUCH AS ALAN BATES AND THE ONE AND ONLY THORA HERD TEARING THROUGH THE SCRIPT. THE PLOT IS EASY TO FOLLOW, YOUNG COUPLE CREATE A BABY WHICH THEY DON'T WANT, GIRL HAS MOTHER FROM HELL WHO LOATHES THE BOYFRIEND. EVERYTHING THAT CAN GO WRONG DOES GO WRONG UNTIL HE STANDS UP FOR HIMSELF AND FOR HIS GIRL AND THEY FIND LOVE TOGETHER. UPLIFTING, ATMOSPHERIC AND BRILLIANT A BRAVE FILM FOR ITS TIME DEALING WITH COMPLICATED ISSUES THAT WOULDN'T NORMALLY HAVE BEEN MENTIONED OUTSIDE OF THE HOME, TREMENDOUS.A Kind Of Loving [DVD] [1962]

ruddy good
The Manchester accents can make the dialogue elusive at times, but this is a superior production from all important points of view: script, direction, acting. The location shooting is absolutely wonderful - never a shadow on the bitumen. The story is as straight forward as a half-pint of lager. but it is handled with such conviction and honesty by all concerned, nothing seems the least bit stale. A worthy addition to any DVD collection of fine cinema.