Wish You Were Here

Wish You Were Here (1987)

Some people march to the beat of a different drummer. Lynda’s got her own brass band.

In a staid English seaside town after the Second World War, young Lynda grows up with her widowed father and younger sister. Rebellious Lynda has been swearing constantly from an early age. At sixteen, she becomes more exhibitionist and seeks out sexual encounters challenging the prevailing lower-middle class attitudes to sex.

Date of release
1987-07-24
TMDB
6.4 / 10 (78)
Runtime
1h 32m
Genres
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director
David Leland

Casting

Interesting facts

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. 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. The original music score was composed by Stanley Myers.

Production

Director David Leland loosely based the film on Cynthia Payne's adolescence growing up on the Sussex coast. Personal Services, a film about Payne's experiences as an adult woman, was also written by Leland and released prior to Wish You Were Here. Wish You Were Here was filmed in the Sussex towns of Brighton, Worthing, and Bognor Regis over a period of six weeks.

The first day of filming was on Emily Lloyd's 16th birthday. During the scene where Lynda flashes her underwear to bus drivers, Leland hid makeup department staff among the extras to surprise the actress, capturing her genuine laughter on camera.

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