Wish You Were Here Movie Review 1987

Poignant yet funny slice of British postwar life roughly based on the childhood memoirs of famous madame, Cynthia Payne. A troubled and freedom-loving teenager expresses her rebellion in sexual experimentation. Mum is dead and Dad just doesn't understand, so what's a girl to do, but get the boys excited? Lloyd, in her first film, plays the main character with exceptional strength and feistiness. Payne's later life was dramatized in the Leland-scripted "Personal Services."

Distribution

Available on VHS
Running time 92 minutes.
Originally from British.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Comedy Drama, Teen Angst, Sex & Sexuality, Postwar, Adapted from Memoirs or Diaries

Screenplay

David Leland

Cast

Emily Lloyd, Tom Bell, Clare Clifford, Barbara Durkin, Geoffrey Hutchings, Charlotte Barker, Chloe Leland, Trudy Cavanagh, Jesse Birdsall, Geoffrey Durham, Pat Heywood

Cinematography

Ian Wilson

Director

David Leland

Music

Stanley Myers

Producer

Zenith-Working Title/Atlantic

Awards

British Acad. 1987: Orig. Screenplay; Natl. Soc. Film Critics 1987: Actress (Lloyd).