Vic is a Manchester draughtsman who has a sexual relationship with typist Ingrid—she falls for him, but he is not in love with her. Despite the unrequited love, the two soon marry due to Ingrid’s pregnancy and learn to form a relationship despite the lack of mutual romance.
One of the great kitchen sink films of the British New Wave, John Schlesinger’s breathtaking debut seized the mood of the era with its boiling-pot of class and generational tensions and realistic portrayal of youthful matrimony for social propriety. It launched the career of a baby-faced Alan Bates!
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