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MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Adult Situations, Not For Children, Adult Language Movie Release: 1987 DVD Release: 04/20/2004 Format: DVD - Letterbox for TV - Closed Captioned Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: English, French, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 32 mins Studio: MGM Total Copies: 2 Genres: Comedy Drama, Film a Clef, Coming-of-Age

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

Emily Lloyd - Lynda
Tom Bell - Eric
Clare Clifford - Mrs. Parfitt
Barbara Durkin - Valerie
Geoffrey Hutchings - Hubert

Emily Lloyd won rave reviews for her performance as a footloose young woman in a small British community in this comedy drama, which comes to DVD in a straightforward release. Wish You Were Here has been transferred to disc in letterboxed format at the widescreen aspect ratio of 1.66:1, which has also been enhanced for anamorphic playback on 16 x 9 monitors. The audio has been mastered in Dolby Digital Surround; the dialogue is in English, with optional subtitles in English, Spanish, and French. The film's original trailer appears on this edition as a bonus. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide