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Wish You Were Here is a British film of genre Drama directed by David Leland released in USA on 24 july 1987 with Emily Lloyd
Wish You Were Here (1987)
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Add to a movie listWish You Were Here is a 1987 British comedy-drama film starring Emily Lloyd and Tom Bell. It was written and directed by David Leland. The original music score was composed by Stanley Myers.
Synopsis
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.Actors
Emily Lloyd
(Lynda Mansell)
Tom Bell
(Eric)
Heathcote Williams
(Dr. Holroyd)
Jesse Birdsall
(Dave)
Geoffrey Hutchings
(Hubert Mansell)
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