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Box office. $12 million [5] 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. [6] 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 ...
Wish You Were Here: Directed by David Leland. With Trudi Cavanagh, Emily Lloyd, Clare Clifford, Barbara Durkin. In a staid English seaside town after the Second World War, young Lynda grows up with her widowed father and younger sister. She eventually becomes pregnant by an acquaintance of her father.
Wish You Were Here: Directed by David Leland. With Trudi Cavanagh, Emily Lloyd, Clare Clifford, Barbara Durkin. In a staid English seaside town after the Second World War, young Lynda grows up with her widowed father and younger sister.
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- Comedy, Drama
- David Leland
- 1987-07-24
On 23rd April 2017 The Dome hosted the 'Wish You Were Here' 30th anniversary celebration which was attended by the director David Leland (seen here just left of centre) and Emily Lloyd. Joining David on stage are many of the Worthing residents who had appeared in the film as extras. (SD)
English. 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. [6] 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. [7]
- Ian Wilson
- Stanley Myers
- David Leland
- Sarah Radclyffe
Synopsis. In 1951 England, Lynda Mansell is a sixteen-year-old girl living in a small seaside town with her younger sister and widowed father. Lynda's outspoken and feisty nature (her favorite insults are "Up your bum!" and "Cock off!") make her a constant source of worry and dismay for her father Hubert.
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Set in a small English coastal town in the 1950's, David Leland's Wish You Were Here is a comical poignant story of a young girl's sexual awakening. Lynda, an exuberant 16 year old, lives with her father (the local gents hairdresser) and her younger sister ("my boring bloody sister"). Starved of affection since the death of her mother, Lynda ...
