Wish You Were Here (1987 movie)
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| Directed by | David Leland |
| Produced by | Sarah Radclyffe |
| Written by | David Leland |
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| Music by | Stanley Myers |
| Cinematography | Ian Wilson |
| Edited by | George Akers |
| Distributed by | Atlantic Releasing Corp |
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92 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | ₤1.2 million |
Wish You Were Here is a 1987 British comedy-drama film starring Emily Lloyd and Tom Bell. It was written and directed by David Leland. The original music score was composed by Stanley Myers.
Sixteen-year-old Lynda Mansell (Emily Lloyd) lives in a small English seaside town in the early 1950s. She is feisty, outspoken and precocious and tries to shock other people with her histrionic behaviour, vulgar and saucy tongue (her favourite insult is "Up yer bum"). Bored with conventional jobs (which she frequently loses) and her town's dull young men, Lynda has her first sexual experience with Dave (Jesse Birdsall) but after she has slept with one of her father's middle-aged friends (Tom Bell), her life changes. She becomes pregnant and her father, a somewhat rigid and conventional man, disowns her. Desperately she tries to seek an illegal abortion but in the end decides to become a mother.
The film was based loosely on the memoirs of the British madam Cynthia Payne as an adolescent growing up on the Sussex coast. It was filmed in the West Sussex towns of Worthing and Bognor Regis.
Wish You Were Here has an overall approval rating of 89% on Rotten Tomatoes.
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