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Wish You Were Here is a 1987 British comedy-drama film written and directed by David Leland and starring Emily Lloyd, Tom Bell, Geoffrey Hutchings, and Jesse Birdsall.[5] The film follows a girl's coming-of-age in a small coastal town in postwar England. It is loosely based on the formative years of British madam Cynthia Payne.[6] The original music score was composed by Stanley Myers.[5]

Wish You Were Here
US theatrical release poster
Directed by	David Leland
Written by	David Leland
Produced by	Sarah Radclyffe
Starring	Emily Lloyd Tom Bell Geoffrey Hutchings Pat Heywood Jesse Birdsall
Cinematography	Ian Wilson
Edited by	George Akers
Music by	Stanley Myers
Production companies	Zenith Entertainment Working Title Films Channel Four Films
Distributed by	Palace Pictures[1]
Release date	24 July 1987 (1987-07-24) (U.S.)
Running time	92 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Budget	£1.2 million[2][3]
Box office	$3,283,832[4]

The film received acclaim from critics, winning the International Federation of Film Critics prize at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival, a BAFTA award for Best Screenplay for director Leland, and the Best Actress Award for Lloyd from the National Society of Film Critics.

Plot

In the early 1950s, sixteen-year-old Lynda Mansell lives in a small English seaside town with her widowed father Hubert and younger sister, Margaret. Feisty, outspoken, and precocious, Lynda likes to shock other people with her histrionic behavior (such as bicycling at the boardwalk with her skirt hiked up, inviting young men to compare her legs to Betty Grable's) and vulgar speech (her favorite insult is "Up yer bum"). Lynda works a variety of jobs, including the bus garage and another at a fish and chip shop, but her rebellious nature often ends in termination. Hubert, whom Lynda has an adversarial relationship with, unsuccessfully tries to correct Lynda's behavior by taking her to a psychiatrist. Flashbacks reveal Lynda was close with her late mother.

Lynda returns the affections of a couple of male suitors, but the dates she goes on with them are unsatisfying. Eric, a bookie and one of Hubert's middle-aged friends, takes an interest in Lynda. Lynda initially refuses Eric's advances, but as her relationship with her father grows increasingly strained, Lynda begins sleeping with Eric. When Hubert finds out who she is with, he tells Lynda how ashamed he is of her, and how her mother would be as well if she were alive.

Lynda leaves her home to move in with Eric, but is greeted with his callous behavior instead of the affection and love she craves. She eventually leaves him and gets a job as a waitress at a tea room. Eric shows up and needles Lynda, insisting he has missed her. He only stops pestering her when she reveals she is pregnant. Lynda considers getting an illegal abortion, but realizes she does not have the money for one.

Having learned of his estranged daughter's pregnancy, Hubert shows up to the tea room and demands to talk to Lynda. Lynda denounces Hubert as he calls her a slut. The pair's argument escalates into a public spectacle with Lynda getting up on a table and shouting about British respectability and hypocrisy and insulting the customers. Though Lynda is fired, a few customers applaud her rants, including the elderly woman who plays the tea room piano.

Desperate and down-on-her-luck, Lynda meets with her Aunt Millie. Aunt Millie tries to persuade Lynda to get an abortion or to give the baby up for adoption, as women who have children out of wedlock are looked down upon in society. Aunt Millie tells Lynda the choice is ultimately hers, but leaves her some money to pay for an abortion. Lynda returns to the abortion provider but hesitates at the doorstep as she imagines her father and daughter as onlookers.

Several months later, Lynda returns home. She arrives at her destination—the bus garage she used to work at—with a newborn baby in tow. She passes by all the places she formerly frequented, including the promenade where she would flash her legs at the boys. Onlookers, a visibly uncomfortable Eric amongst them, are stunned to see Lynda defiantly pushing her baby in a pram. The film ends with Lynda ringing the doorbell to Hubert's home and embracing her baby.

Cast

Production

Director David Leland loosely based the film on Cynthia Payne's adolescence growing up on the Sussex coast.[7] Personal Services, a film about Payne's experiences as an adult woman, was also written by Leland and released prior to Wish You Were Here.[6] Wish You Were Here was filmed in the Sussex towns of Brighton, Worthing, and Bognor Regis[8] over a period of six weeks.[6]

The first day of filming was on Emily Lloyd's 16th birthday.[6]

Reception

Wish You Were Here has an overall approval rating of 85% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 33 reviews.[9] Roger Ebert gave the film 3½ stars out of four, describing it as "a comedy with an angry undertone, a story of a free-spirited girl who holds a grudge against a time when such girls were a threat to society, to the interlocking forces of sexism and convention that conspired to break their spirits".[7] Ebert praised Lloyd's performance as "one of the great debut roles for a young actress".[7] Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote, "Lynda's wild outbursts - toward the end of the film, she insults her lover and denounces her father in the genteel tea room where she works as a waitress - are as entertaining as they are cathartic, and Miss Lloyd delivers these strings of epithets as colorfully as Mr. Leland writes them. Miss Lloyd [manages] to seem both feisty and fragile...capturing the full emotional range of this complicated young girl".[5]

Sheila Benson of the Los Angeles Times complimented the film's attention to period detail, as well as Leland's direction, citing "[he] has a reason, a purpose, a history for every character—and for every claustrophobic brick row-house or damp, echoing picture palace".[10] She said the film manages to be funny and dark without becoming maudlin, becoming "something more than the words on a souvenir post card...a cry from the heart".[10]

The film made £2,994,209 at the UK box office.[3]

Awards and honors

Award	Category	Name	Result	Ref.
Evening Standard British Film Awards	Best Actress	Emily Lloyd	Won	[11]
National Society of Film Critics			Won	[12]
1987 Cannes Film Festival	International Federation of Film Critics prize		Won	[13]
BAFTA Awards	Best Screenplay	David Leland	Won	[14]
	Best Actress	Emily Lloyd	Nominated	[15]

See also

• Personal Services

References

External links

• Wish You Were Here at IMDb
• Wish You Were Here at AllMovie
• Wish You Were Here at Rotten Tomatoes
• Wish You Were Here at Box Office Mojo

На других языках

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[de] Wish You Were Here – Ich wollte, du wärst hier

Wish You Were Here – Ich wollte, du wärst hier ist eine britische Tragikomödie aus dem Jahre 1987 und das Regiedebüt des britischen Drehbuchautors David Leland. In den Hauptrollen sind Emily Lloyd und Tom Bell zu sehen.

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- [en] Wish You Were Here (1987 film)

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