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Wish You Were Here

Wish You Were Here

Comedy Drama Romance

1987, Movie, 1h 32min

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.

Country: United Kingdom

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Geoffrey Hutchings

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6.0

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Critic William Thomas

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6

...a raunchy postcard from an age that exists largely now for filmakers to make of it what they want.

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Wish You Were Here was released in theaters on January 8, 1988.