Ethel & Ernest

Ethel & Ernest

🎞️ Movie 94 min GB
โ˜… 7.7 /10 2016

A true story.

In 1928 London milk-man Ernest Briggs courts and marries house-maid Ethel, their son Raymond being born in 1934. When World War II breaks out Ethel tearfully allows him to be evacuated to aunts in Dorset whilst Ernest joins the fire service, shocked by the carnage he sees. As hostilities end they celebrate Raymond's return and entry to grammar school and the birth of the welfare state though Ethel is mistrustful of socialism and progress in general. Raymond himself progresses from National Service to art college and a teaching post, worrying his mother by marrying schizophrenic Jean. However father and son console each other as Ethel slips away but before long Raymond is mourning his father too though both Ethel and Ernest will forever be immortalized by Raymond's touching account of their lives.

Cast

Jim Broadbent
Jim Broadbent
Ernest Briggs
Brenda Blethyn
Brenda Blethyn
Ethel Briggs
Luke Treadaway
Luke Treadaway
Raymond Briggs
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Macready Massey
Teenage Raymond Briggs
Harry Collett
Harry Collett
Young Raymond Briggs
Roger Allam
Roger Allam
1930s Doctor
June Brown
June Brown
Ernest's Stepmother
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Karyn Claydon
Jean
Simon Day
Simon Day
Alf
Pam Ferris
Pam Ferris
Mrs. Bennet
Pam Ferris
Pam Ferris
Aunty Betty
Carl Davis
Carl Davis
Composer

๐ŸŽฌ Videos

Ethel & Ernest - Trailer
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Trailer
Ethel & Ernest - Trailer
BBC Breakfast featurette on Ethel and Ernest
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Featurette
BBC Breakfast featurette on Ethel and Ernest