Wish You Were Here features a smashingly good performance by Emily Lloyd as a spunky, erotic, and out-spoken teenager.
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04/29/04
Wish You Were Here (1987)
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Reviews Counted:18
Fresh:16
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7/10
Runtime: 1 hr 32 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: A high-spirited tale of a rebellious teenage girl in 1950s Britian who energetically flouts the repressive sexual mores of her working-class seaside town. 16-year-old Lynda enjoys shocking her... [More]
Starring: Emily Lloyd, Tom Bell, Jesse Birdsall, Geoffrey Durham
Director: David Leland
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Reviews for Wish You Were Here
Lloyd is so fresh, so filled with fun and rebellion, that she carries us past the tricky parts on the strength of personality alone. It's one of the great debut roles for a young actress.
01/01/00
Top CriticAt times tremendously funny, but never humorous at the expense of its emotional core, Wish You Were Here is simultaneously nostalgic and in direct opposition to the way that nostalgia tends to coat the past with a layer of sugary sweetness.
11/17/02
Lynda is a rich, spirited creation, and Leland's work here, as both screenwriter and director, is sharp and evocative.
01/01/00
Top CriticBoth the character and the film are more affecting than they initially seem.
05/20/03
Top CriticAs the title indicates, it's a film about yearning for someone dearly missed.
12/26/05
While Leland's script is lively with British characters, his theme is growing tired: young spontaneity stifled by tradition-encrusted hypocrisy.
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05/24/03
Top CriticEmily Lloyd gives an appealing performance.
08/30/02
Good, but somehow not great.
12/04/02
you won't soon forget Lloyd's sassy, fiercely defiant heroine
07/29/02
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07/02/04
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11/01/03
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