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Wish You Were Here (Too Much) (1987)

Wish You Were Here (Too Much)

Plot Synopsis: Sixteen-year-old Lynda (Emily Lloyd) enjoys shocking the neighbors with her "colorful" language and slutty persona. But underneath the flamboyant fa&#... (read more)

Rated R, 1 hr. 25 min.
Directed by: David Leland
Release Date: Dec 31, 1987
On DVD: Apr 20, 2004
All Flixster Ratings: 4.0 Stars (182)
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280 days ago
3.0 Stars
Up yer Bum - say it all really. Funny and shocking. A definat young woman - the first Vivky Pollard - who ends up working how to use her strength
293 days ago
3.5 Stars
A true film of two halfs. The first plays like a selection of comedic sketches that introduce a brash bonkers/bonkers young girl, living in a dreary post-war, seaside town. The second is much darker and quite sad as she falls prey to a sleazy old man... (read more)
294 days ago
5.0 Stars
I love this film. Lynda is the friend everyone wants or wishes they had the guts to be like! My fav bitis the tea rooms. I love it when the old lady playing the piano starts to applaud her. Funny funny!
360 days ago
5.0 Stars
I love this film so much, it makes me smile and cry and smile again - I'll often think about that immortal line and dance the little dance "up your bum! up your bum!" Well - it appealled to my childish sense of humour and made me happy.
382 days ago
5.0 Stars
I once got compared to Emily Loyd in that movie. So I went to watch it. It was the best compliment ever. Absolutely charming movie!
407 days ago
5.0 Stars
Emily loyd is brilliant as the young Cynthia Payne growing up in a suffocating seaside town, with her 'up your bums,' to all the moral hypocrites.
410 days ago
4.0 Stars
Great, heartbreaking and defiant British film from the mid-eighties. Emily Loyd in a starmaking turn as a young girl wounded by abandonment and smothered by a small town on the lookout for any sign of "difference". Written and directed by the terribl... (read more)
414 days ago
5.0 Stars
This film is soo good I know it word for word scene by scene , Emily Lloyd is brilliant. Loved the scene in the Paris Tearoomsxx
425 days ago
5.0 Stars
great bittersweet film,excellent period detail,but somewhat abrupt ending. love it and never tire of watching it
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