Week-End with Father (1951)
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This seminal Brady Bunch stars Van Heflin as a widower and Patricia Neal as a widow. Both parties have several children by their first marriages. Heflin and Neal fall in love and decide to marry, each hoping to adopt the other's kids. The couple idealistically subscribes to the "one big… More This seminal Brady Bunch stars Van Heflin as a widower and Patricia Neal as a widow. Both parties have several children by their first marriages. Heflin and Neal fall in love and decide to marry, each hoping to adopt the other's kids. The couple idealistically subscribes to the "one big happy family" theory, but they hadn't figured that their kids would dislike the idea...and each other. This mild situation comedy was directed with lots of efficiency but little style by Douglas Sirk, who did better for himself with Universal's big-budget romantic melodramas of the mid-1950s. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Douglas Sirk
- Genres
- Romance, Classics, Comedy
- In Theaters
- Dec 1, 1951 Wide
Critic Reviews
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
A slight sitcom.
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Cast
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Van Heflin
as Brad Stubbs
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Patricia Neal
as Jean Bowen
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Virginia Field
as Phyllis Reynolds
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Richard Denning
as Don Adams
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Jimmy Hunt
as Gary Bowen
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Janine Perreau
as Patty Stubbs
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Tommy Rettig
as David Bowen
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Gary Pagett
as Eddie Lewis
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Frances E. Williams
as Cleo
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Elvia Allman
as Mrs. G.
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Forrest Lewis
as Innkeeper
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Gigi Perreau
as Anne Stubbs
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Maudie Prickett
as Maid
- Robert Rockwell
- Martha Mears