Wish You Were Here (1987 film)
- Wish You Were Here (1987 film)
Infobox_Film
name = Wish You Were Here
caption = "Wish You Were Here" (DVD)
writer = David Leland
starring = Emily Lloyd
Tom Bell
director = David Leland
producer = Sarah Radclyffe
music = Stanley Myers
cinematography = Ian Wilson
editing = George Akers
distributor = Atlantic Releasing Corp
released = July 24, 1987 (U.S.)
distributor UK = Channel 4 DVD
released UK = 24 Sep, 2007 (UK)
runtime = 92 min.
country = flagicon|UK
language = English
amg_id = A54933
imdb_id = 0094331
"Wish You Were Here" is a 1987 British drama/comedy film starring Emily Lloyd and Tom Bell. The film was written and directed by David Leland. The original music score was composed by Stanley Myers.
Plot summary
16-year-old Lynda Mansell (Emily Lloyd) lives in a small English seaside town in the early 1950s. She is feisty and precocious and always shocks other people with her vulgar and saucy tongue (her favorite 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 became a mother.
"Wish you were here" is a sigh Lynda makes because of her dead mother, who understood her and protected her from her intolerant father. Beneath her cheeky exterior, Lynda is a vulnerable girl who seeks for love and a place in life, and she lives in a time where it was difficult for teenagers like her to do these in their own way.
This movie was based loosely on the memoirs of the British madam Cynthia Payne as a teenager. It was filmed in Worthing.
Awards and nominations
*1987: Evening Standard British Film Awards Emily Lloyd for Best Actress
*1987: National Society of Film Critics Emily Lloyd for Best Actress
*1988: BAFTA Award David Leland for Best Screenplay
*1988: BAFTA Award Nomination Best Actress
Cast
External links
*imdb title|id=0094331|title=Wish You Were Here
*amg title|id=A65933|title=Wish You Were Here
*rotten-tomatoes|id=wish_you_were_here|title=Wish You Were Here
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE3DA1630F937A15754C0A961948260&sec=&pagewanted=1 New York Times review by Janet Maslin]
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