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.
07-24-1987
1h 32m
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Movie Details
Production Info
Director:
David Leland
Writer:
David Leland
Production:
Working Title Films, Zenith Entertainment, Film4 Productions
Key Crew
Producer:
Sarah Radclyffe
Art Direction:
Nigel Phelps
Locations and Languages
Country:
GB
Filming:
GB
Languages:
en
Main Cast
Emily Lloyd
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Emily Lloyd (born Emily Lloyd Pack; September 29, 1970) is an English actress.
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Jesse Birdsall (born 13 February 1963) is an English actor, known for his role as Marcus Tandy in the BBC1 soap opera Eldorado, his role in the adventure series Bugs (1995–1999) as Nick Beckett, his role in Footballers' Wives as football manager, Roger Webb between 2004 and 2006, and his roles as Fraser Black in Hollyoaks and as villain Ron Gregory in a few episodes of The Bill.
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Sheila Kelley is a British television actress. Her career began in 1974, in the series Village Hall. Further notable appearances were in the series Within These Walls (1978), Empire Road (1978), Play for Today (1975, 1976, 1982), A Touch of Frost (1994), Dangerfield (1998) and Dalziel and Pascoe (1997, 2000). She also acted in movies, including Wish You Were Here (1987) and Secrets & Lies (1996).
She is married to actor Stephen Bill (known from Prick Up Your Ears). Their son Leo Bill is also an actor (known from 28 Days Later).
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Barbara Durkin is an English actress who trained at the Manchester Polytechnic School of Theatre. She made her debut in the 1987 British film Wish You Were Here, and later made television appearances in Knowing Me, Knowing You... with Alan Partridge, Boon, Brass Eye, I'm Alan Partridge, Taking the Floor, Midsomer Murders, Roger Roger, My Parents Are Aliens and Scoop.
Patricia Heywood (born 1 August 1931) was a Scottish actress. She was nominated for BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Romeo and Juliet in 1969.
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Born in Liverpool in 1940, Neville Smith, a one time collaborator of director Ken Loach, is one of a number of working-class actors and writers to have transformed the subject-matter and tone of television drama in the 1960s and 1970s. He was responsible for two of Loach's finest television films - 'The Golden Vision' (The Wednesday Play, BBC, tx. 17/4/1968) and After a Lifetime (ITV, tx. 18/7/1971) - but also developed a partnership with the director Stephen Frears, for whom he wrote the cult British detective film, Gumshoe (UK/US, 1971).
Lee Whitlock was a British actor. He began his career as a child, starring in popular TV series Shine On Harvey Moon as Stanley Moon. His film credits included the groundbreaking LGBT TV movie Two of Us, David Leland's Wish You Were Here, Paul WS Anderson's Shopping, Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Bryan Singer's Jack the Giant Slayer, Woody Allen's Cassandra's Dream, Dexter Fletcher's Wild Bill and Plan B's Ill Manors. Whitlock died aged 54 on 17th February 2023
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Ben Daniels (born 10 June 1964) is a British actor. A graduate of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), he has taken on roles in numerous productions. On television he has appeared in, among other shows, The Lost Language of Cranes (1991), Conspiracy (2001), Cutting It (2002–2005), Ian Fleming: Bondmaker (2005), The Virgin Queen (2005) and The State Within (2006). On the silver screen, Daniels has appeared mostly in supporting roles, including parts in The Bridge (1992), Beautiful Thing (1996), I Want You (1998), Madeline (1998) and Doom (2005). An exception was the 1997 independent film Passion in the Desert, based on a short story by novelist Honoré de Balzac.
Daniels has had most success with theatre work. He was nominated for Best Actor at the Evening Standard Awards for 900 Oneonta (1994), for Best Actor in the M.E.N. Theatre Awards for Martin Yesterday (1998), and for Best Supporting Actor in the 15th Laurence Olivier Awards for Never the Sinner (1991). He eventually won the latter award at the 25th Laurence Olivier Awards (2001), as well as the Best Supporting Actor award at the 2001 Whatsonstage.com Theatregoers' Choice Theatre Awards, for his performance in the Arthur Miller play All My Sons. Other theatre credits include Tales From Hollywood (2001), Three Sisters (2003), Iphigenia at Aulis (2004), The God of Hell (2005), The Wild Duck (2005–2006) and Thérèse Raquin (2006). In 2008 Daniels made his Broadway début with American actress Laura Linney in a revival of Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Dangerous Liaisons), for which he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play.
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