Rating: R
Genre: Comedy Drama
Release Date: 04/20/2004
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English
Sound: DDS
Run Time: 92 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: MGM

The British Wish You Were Here served as the auspicious film debut for 16-year-old Emily Lloyd. The scene is a British seaside community of the 1950s, where the local adults are shocked and embarrassed by the libertine Lynda (Lloyd), who dresses provocatively, behaves outrageously, and swears like a sailor (her favorite epithet is "Up your bum"). Lynda's mother is dead, and her father has given up trying to do anything with her. She attempts to hold down several jobs, but messes them all up through insolence and carelessness. Excessively promiscuous, Lynda has an affair with a middle-aged friend of her father's. She becomes pregnant, only to use her "fallen" state to gleefully shock and annoy her elders even more. Despite her bravado, there's an underlying sadness about Lynda: the title Wish You Were Here refers to her feelings concerning her late mother.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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Cast:
Emily Lloyd - Lynda
Tom Bell - Eric
Clare Clifford - Mrs. Parfitt
Barbara Durkin - Valerie
Geoffrey Hutchings - Hubert
Charlotte Barker - Gillian
Jesse Birdsall - Dave
Chloe Leland - Margaret
Trudy Cavanagh - Tap Dancing Lady

Production:
David Leland - Director
Sarah Radclyffe - Producer
Stanley Myers - Composer
George Akers - Editor
David Leland - Screen Writer
Nigel Phelps - Art Director
Susie Figgis - Casting
Shuna Harwood - Costume Designer
Jenny Shircore - Makeup
Caroline Amies - Production Designer
Jim Dowdall - Stunts
Ian Wilson - Cinematographer

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