Wish You Were Here (1987 film)
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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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Running time | 92 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | ₤1.2 million[1] |
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.[2] The original music score was composed by Stanley Myers.[2]
Plot
Sixteen-year-old Lynda Mansell (Emily Lloyd) lives in a small English seaside town in the early 1950s. She is feisty and precocious and tries to shock other people with her 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.
"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 love and a place in life; she lives in a time when it was difficult for teenagers like her to do that in their own way.
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Production
The movie was based loosely on the memoirs of the British madam Cynthia Payne as an adolescent growing up on the Sussex coast.[3] It was filmed in the West Sussex towns of Worthing and Bognor Regis.
Reception
Wish You Were Here has an overall approval rating of 89% on Rotten Tomatoes.[4]
Awards and honors
- 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
References
- ↑ RODERICK MANN: NOW LELAND CAN SPELL 'SUCCESS' Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File) [Los Angeles, Calif] 01 Aug 1987: E1.
- 1 2 Maslin, Janet (July 24, 1987). "Wish You Were Here (1987) FILM: 'WISH YOU WERE HERE'". The New York Times.
- ↑ "WISH YOU WERE HERE". Retrieved 2014-09-25.
- ↑ "Rotten Tomatoes". Retrieved 2010-09-05.
External links
- Wish You Were Here at the Internet Movie Database
- Wish You Were Here at AllMovie
- Wish You Were Here at Rotten Tomatoes
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