A Voyage Round My Father

A Voyage Round My Father

🎞️ Movie 80 min GB
โ˜… 7.2 /10 1982

Before creating the beloved courtroom drama Rumpole of the Bailey, writer John Mortimer found inspiration in his own life for this portrait of a difficult but enduring love between father and son in mid-20th-century Britain. Screen legend Laurence Olivier stars as the eccentric patriarch--a blind barrister so stubborn and cantankerous that he refuses to acknowledge his sightlessness. Alan Bates (Gosford Park) portrays his devoted son, who follows his father's footsteps in the law while longing to become a writer, with Jane Asher (Brideshead Revisited) as his wife. Adapted for the screen by Mortimer himself and filmed largely on location at his family estate in bucolic Oxfordshire, this production garnered multiple awards, including an International Emmy for best drama. By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, it captures the special bond between father and son, which at times seems unbearable--but ultimately unbreakable.

Direction
Screenplay

Cast

Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier
Clifford Mortimer
Alan Bates
Alan Bates
John Mortimer
Jane Asher
Jane Asher
Elizabeth
Elizabeth Sellars
Elizabeth Sellars
Mother
Michael Aldridge
Michael Aldridge
Headmaster
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Alan Cox
Son as a Boy
Norman Bird
Norman Bird
Ham
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Albert Welling
Japhet
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James A. Downer
Reigate
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Susan Littler
Miss Cox
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Marc Wilkinson
Composer
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Tony Pierce-Roberts
Cinematographer