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Movie Reviews of Wish You Were Here
Movie Review: Heartbreaking Warnings About The Truth of A Troubled Girl
Summary: 5 Stars
Emily Lloyd won international acclaim for her role in this 1987 British film. A motherless teenager raised by a conservative and distant father embarks on an empty search for love in a sleepy coastal English town. A rebel without a cause, defiant, and mouthy, underneath it all is a girl so emotionally deprived and seeking nourishment in all the wrong places. An out-of-wedlock pregnancy solidifies her social pariah status in the community. Based on the British madam Cynthia Payne (the English version of Heidi Fleiss), this outstanding performance is a warning of how fast and deep a spiral reckless teenage girls can go to when they don't feel loved.Movie Review: Emily Lloyd's free-spirited Lynda is a delight to watch!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a wonderful movie that explores the sexual awakening of a young girl with candor and humor. Set in a British seaside town a couple of years after WW Two,teenager Lynda [played convincingly by Emily Lloyd] is a foul-mouthed vixen who enjoys making grown men uncomfortable with their own reactions to her overt sexuality. There is more to Lynda's acting out than just a desire to titillate, and her character does elicit our sympathy. Besides Emily Lloyd's wonderful performance as Lynda, Tom Bell does a good job of portraying Lynda's stern & disapproving father. This is a movie that elicits a variety of emotions - its funny and yet poignant.Movie Review: Defiant coming-of-age flick for girls
Summary: 5 Stars
This film lends courage to girls who sometimes make bad choices. What's wonderful about the ending is that Emily Lloyd's character is still thumbing her nose at the repressed community around her. There's a certain triumph when she declares "yes it's mine, ALL mine" about her newborn baby. Instead of choosing to feel ashamed for having a child out of wedlock, she makes the absolute best of the situation. I highly recommend this film to anyone who has a soft spot in their heart for non-conformity.Movie Review: "I Got These At Marks and Spencer's"
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a gem of a picture that is well worth checking out primarily for the glowing performance of Emily Lloyd as Lynda Mansell, a teenager growing up in Post-war England who defies the staid coventions of her seaside town. Lynda is a young girl who on the surface cheerfully thumbs her nose at society by her outwardly outrageous behavior while internally nursing emotional wounds. Credit director-writer David Leland for intricately explaining the rationale for Lynda's behavior. This film also succeeds in evoking the mood and look of the period. I remember when this film came out that great things were envisioned for Lloyd. She appeared in the Bruce Willis film, "In Country" and "Killing Zoe" but seems to have disappeared. Here's hoping that she emerges on the scene again because she is immensely talented.Movie Review: Nice Legs
Summary: 3 Stars
Nice little film, it's never clear exactly why Emily Lloyd turns out so daft. Okay, her mom died young, but the old man doesn't seem like such a bad bloke. It didn't add up for me.
Also this flick points out that under certain conditions a troubled girl will do it with anything on two legs.
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