Wish You Were Here (1987)

Directors

David Leland

Cast

Emily Lloyd, Tom Bell, Jesse Birdsall, Clare Clifford, Geoffrey Hutchings, Barbara Durkin, Chloe Leland, Charlotte Barker, Pat Heywood, William Lawford, Geoffrey Durham, Sheila Kelley, Charlotte Ball, Susan Skipper, Heathcote Williams

The story

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 bawdy, Lynda likes to shock other people with her histrionic behaviour (bicycling on the promenade with her skirt hiked up, inviting young men to compare her legs to Betty Grable's) and vulgar speech (her favourite insults are "Up yer bum!" and "Cock off!") which alienate her from her peers and her sister. Her father, Hubert, has his own barber shop and finds her employment at a variety of places, including a ladies' hair salon, a bus depot, and a fish and chip van,…

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