Wish You Were Here

Wish You Were Here (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Cannes Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
91 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Movie filmed in 1987 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
David Leland

Written By:
David Leland

Actors:
Emily Lloyd ..... Lynda
Tom Bell ..... Eric
Jesse Birdsall ..... Dave
Clare Clifford ..... Mrs. Parfitt
Barbara Durkin ..... Valerie
Geoffrey Hutchings ..... Hubert
Charlotte Barker ..... Gillian
Chloe Leland ..... Margaret
Charlotte Ball ..... Lynda (aged 11)
Pat Heywood ..... Aunt Millie
Abigail Leland ..... Margaret (aged 7)
Susan Skipper ..... Lynda's Mother
Geoffrey Durham ..... Harry Figgis
Sheila Kelley ..... Joan Figgis
Neville Smith ..... Cinema Manager

Synopsis:

The British Wish You Were Here served as the auspicious film debut for 16-year-old Emily Lloyd. The scene is a British seaside community of the 1950s, where the local adults are shocked and embarrassed by the libertine Lynda (Lloyd), who dresses provocatively, behaves outrageously, and swears like a sailor (her favorite epithet is 'Up your bum'). Lynda's mother is dead, and her father has given up trying to do anything with her. She attempts to hold down several jobs, but messes them all up through insolence and carelessness. Excessively promiscuous, Lynda has an affair with a middle-aged friend of her father's. She becomes pregnant, only to use her 'fallen' state to gleefully shock and annoy her elders even more. Despite her bravado, there's an underlying sadness about Lynda: the title Wish You Were Here refers to her feelings concerning her late mother.

Director David Leland's valentine to sexual candor is most notable for introducing the bright, unaffected young actress Emily Lloyd. Lloyd's uninhibited, motherless Lynda is coy and sprightly without ever resorting to hapless, sex-kitten posing. Despite the nature of the material -- the script was based on the adolescence of notorious English madam Cynthia Payne -- Leland never uses Lloyd as a mere object of desire. The sex scenes are mostly rendered in objective long shot, as it becomes obvious that the film is as much about the sexual hangups of men as it is about the relative 'promiscuity' of a teenage girl. In this respect, Wish You Were Here is a fine companion to Martha Coolidge's Rambling Rose (1991): both films recognize the need for sexual curiosity and experimentation in young women, despite the consternation that they might receive from hypocritical, repressed partners.

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