Wish You Were Here (1987)
July 24, 1987
Comedy, Drama, Romance
1h 32m


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. She eventually becomes pregnant by an acquaintance of her father.
Cast & Crew
- Director
- David Leland
- Lynda Mansell Emily Lloyd
- Eric Tom Bell
- Dave Jesse Birdsall
- Mrs. Parfitt Clare Clifford
- Hubert Mansell Geoffrey Hutchings
- Aunt Millie Pat Heywood
- Lynda’s Mother Susan Skipper
- Harry Figgis Geoffrey Durham
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Keywords
- england
- rebel
- pregnant minor
- based on true story
- teenage girl
- seaside
- post war
- father daughter conflict
- 1950s