Wish You Were Here

Wish You Were Here

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  • Genre: Romance, Drama
  • Release Date: 2025-01-17
  • Runtime: 99 minutes
  • : 6.2
  • Production Company: Phiphen Pictures
  • Production Country: United States of America
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6.2/10
6.2
From 14 Ratings

Description

Charlotte finds herself in a rut, searching for a spark that seems just out of reach. After she has a whirlwind night of romance and imagining a future with a man named Adam, he ghosts her. When Charlotte finally discovers that Adam is terminally ill, she helps him spend his last days living life to the fullest.

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Reviews

  • CinemaSerf

    7
    By CinemaSerf
    If you can imagine what Britain was like immediately after the end of WWII, then you can picture the grey and drab world inhabited by the sixteen year old “Lynda” (Emily Lloyd) who lives with her dad and younger sister. Her mum died many years earlier leaving her to develop quite a few of the traits more readily attributed to men. She swears like a trooper and when it comes to sex, well she doesn’t intend to let the grass grow. That said, though, after some more routine action with cocky busman “Dave” (Jesse Birdsall) she isn’t remotely prepared for a relationship with a much older friend of her father - “Eric” (Tom Bell), nor for the consequences that ensue for their dalliances. This is one of those observational films that showcases the exuberance and irresponsibility of youth whilst clearly illustrating just how skin deep the faux confidence we probably all exuded at that age actually was. Add to that scenario a rather more responsible sister (Chloe Leland) and a loving but largely out of his depth father (Geoffrey Hutchins) and we see a young girl in the throes of temperamental adolescence that it’s hard not to like nor sympathise with - even if she has a masters degree in vulgarity. It’s an engaging story of humanity, warts and all, with some pretty spot on observations on sexuality, femininity and the mores of a time when it was perfectly acceptable to do as I do, not as I say. Lloyd carries this really quite well. Her joie-de-vivre tempered, gradually, by a sense that she will just have to grow up as best she can and like with so many of that period - as like now - that’s no walk in the park. I did like the conclusion, it rather summed up her situation, attitude and is not a simple sweep under the carpet job. Worth a look.

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