Wish You Were Here - 1987

 

Wish You Were Here [1987]

 

The film follows rebellious Lynda (Emily Lloyd) in 1950's Britain.
A sparkling performance by Lloyd.

 

Emily Lloyd-Pack, known as Emily Lloyd (born 29 September 1970), is an English actress,

perhaps best known for her breakthrough performance at the age of sixteen in the 1987

David Leland film Wish You Were Here.

 

 

Wish You Were Here
US Theatrical release poster
Directed by	David Leland
Produced by	Sarah Radclyffe
Written by	David Leland
Starring	Emily Lloyd Tom Bell
Music by	Stanley Myers
Cinematography	Ian Wilson
Edited by	George Akers
Distributed by	Atlantic Releasing Corp
Release dates	24 July 1987 (1987-07-24) (U.S.)
Running time	92 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Budget	₤1.2 million[1]

Wish You Were Here is a 1987 British comedy-drama film starring Emily Lloyd and Tom Bell. I

t was written and directed by David Leland.^[2] The original music score was composed by

Stanley Myers.^[2]

 

Plot

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.

 

"Wish you were here" is a sigh Lynda makes because of her dead mother, who understood her and protected her from her intolerant father. Beneath her cheeky exterior, Lynda is a vulnerable girl who seeks love and a place in life; she lives in a time when it was difficult for teenagers like her to do that in their own way.