The Family Way is a 1966 film based on Bill Naughton's play All in Good Time (1963). It began life in 1961 as a television play entitled Honeymoon Postponed.blank">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0768903/ The film was produced and directed by _John and Roy Boulting, respectively, and starred father and daughter John Mills and Hayley Mills. Naughton adapted the play himself.

A realistic, working-class comedy set in Bolton in northern England, the story concerns newly-wed couple Jenny and Arthur Fitton (Hayley Mills and Hywel Bennett) who live with Arthur’s parents Ezra and Lucy (John Mills and Marjorie Rhodes), and who are unable to consummate their marriage. As tongues begin to wag, tensions rise and truths begin to emerge, particularly about Ezra and his onetime best friend, Billy.

The film was controversial because it featured a rear nude scene with Hayley Mills, a former child star who had played such "cute" roles as Pollyanna. Part of the film's promotion used the brief nudity and the fact that Mills was starring in a "grown up" film. Mills, who was 20 when the film was released, subsequently moved in with 53-year-old director Roy Boulting, whom she married six years later.

The soundtrack was scored by Beatle Paul McCartney and producer George Martin.

The cover sleeve of Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before, a single by English band The Smiths, features Murray Head (as Arthur's brother Geoffrey) in a still from the film.

Married life is proving difficult for newlyweds Jenny and Arthur. With well meaning but interfering parents, nosey neighbors, and a town that thrives on gossip, can their marriage last? With all these pressures it's no wonder their personal life is suffering. Will there ever be any good news? Written by Kevin Steinhauer

A delightful portrait of two young-marrieds trying to make a new family unit in the shadow of the old, against nosy villagers, business associates, doting parents, and their own shyness. While it is a particular marriage, much of what happens is relevant to marriage generally. First their wedding night is ruined by a crude practical joke that makes the bed collapse, the travel agent they hired to plan their honeymoon absconds with their money and they find themselves forced to live for the first few weeks of their marriage in the home of one set of in-laws, with little or no privacy. The film deals with these predicaments in s sympathetic, human way; with insight, delicacy, good nature and good humor. Written by alfiehitchie