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Wish You Were Here is a 1987 British drama/comedy film starring Emily Lloyd and Tom Bell. The film was written and directed by David Leland. The original music score was composed by Stanley Myers.
Sixteen-year-old Lynda Mansell (Emily Lloyd) lives in a small English seaside town in the early 1950s. She is feisty and precocious and always shocks other people with her vulgar and saucy tongue (her favourite insult is "Up yer bum"). She is also naive and easily taken advantage of. Bored with conventional jobs (which she frequently loses) and her town's dull young men, Lynda has her first sexual experience with Dave (Jesse Birdsall) but after she has slept with one of her father's middle-aged friends (Tom Bell), her life changes. She becomes pregnant and her father, a somewhat rigid and conventional man, disowns her. Desperately she tries to seek an illegal abortion but in the end decides to become a mother.
"Wish you were here" is a sigh Lynda makes because of her dead mother, who understood her and protected her from her intolerant father. Beneath her cheeky exterior, Lynda is a vulnerable girl who seeks love and a place in life; she lives in a time when it was difficult for teenagers like her to do that in their own way.
It's funny how things,they change,the clouds they part,rearrange for
Faces of strangers and I have no familiars to help me see
Where is home?
I want you to know
That I wish you were here
I wish you were here
Sometimes I wonder if God hides out in cities to set us free
Cus yeah this room is crowded but I am so alone in it,help me please
Where is home?
I want you to know
That I wish you were here
I wish you were here
I wish you were here
And I will be strong
I won't give in
I won't deny you
I know where we've been
I am so much more
Than all of my fears
Than all of these tears
My tears,yeah
I wish you were here
I wish you were here
Where is home?
I want you to know
That I wish you were here