Rita, Sue and Bob Too is a controversial comic drama about two adolescent school girls who start seeing a married man with no initial concern for the consequences.
Directed by Alan Clarke and written by playwright Andrea Dunbar, the film has 1980s Britain running through it, and boasted the strapline ‘Thatcher’s Britain with her knickers down’. For some it was uncomfortable, and for others joyful, but either way, it’s a striking piece of writing and filmmaking.
Rita, Sue and Bob Too (1986)
Alan Clarke’s comedy about two school girls who start a dalliance with a married man.
- 1986 United Kingdom
- Directed by
- Alan Clarke
- Produced by
- Sandy Lieberson
- Featuring
- Siobhan Finneran, Michelle Holmes, George Costigan
- Running time
- 93 minutes
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