Wish You Were Here (1987)
Country: GB
Technical: col 92m
Director: David Leland
Cast: Emily Lloyd, Tom Bell, Clare Clifford
Synopsis:
Somewhere on the south coast in 1951 a precocious teenager is an embarrassment to her father and bored by her sister. She fails to hold down a series of jobs and boyfriends and has an unfortunate dalliance with a cinema projectionist twice her age.
Review:
Leland wrote Personal Services around the same time as this directorial debut, and there is the suggestion that the film charts the youth of Cynthia Payne (the credits thank her for her help), though it is also inspired by his memories of the austerity and repressiveness of fifties Britain. But it will be remembered for launching Emily Lloyd on her brief career; it is a gutsy portrayal of adolescent impudence, if dramatically slight and lapsing into whimsy at the end.
Country: GB
Technical: col 92m
Director: David Leland
Cast: Emily Lloyd, Tom Bell, Clare Clifford
Synopsis:
Somewhere on the south coast in 1951 a precocious teenager is an embarrassment to her father and bored by her sister. She fails to hold down a series of jobs and boyfriends and has an unfortunate dalliance with a cinema projectionist twice her age.
Review:
Leland wrote Personal Services around the same time as this directorial debut, and there is the suggestion that the film charts the youth of Cynthia Payne (the credits thank her for her help), though it is also inspired by his memories of the austerity and repressiveness of fifties Britain. But it will be remembered for launching Emily Lloyd on her brief career; it is a gutsy portrayal of adolescent impudence, if dramatically slight and lapsing into whimsy at the end.
Country: GB
Technical: col 92m
Director: David Leland
Cast: Emily Lloyd, Tom Bell, Clare Clifford
Synopsis:
Somewhere on the south coast in 1951 a precocious teenager is an embarrassment to her father and bored by her sister. She fails to hold down a series of jobs and boyfriends and has an unfortunate dalliance with a cinema projectionist twice her age.
Review:
Leland wrote Personal Services around the same time as this directorial debut, and there is the suggestion that the film charts the youth of Cynthia Payne (the credits thank her for her help), though it is also inspired by his memories of the austerity and repressiveness of fifties Britain. But it will be remembered for launching Emily Lloyd on her brief career; it is a gutsy portrayal of adolescent impudence, if dramatically slight and lapsing into whimsy at the end.