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Rita, Sue and Bob Too is a 1986 British film directed by Alan Clarke about two West Yorkshire schoolgirls who have a sexual fling with a married man. It is adapted by Andrea Dunbar from her 1982 stage play of the same name and a 1980 play of hers, "The Arbor". Its portrayal of 'ordinary' people's lives made it a cult film soon after its cinematic release. It was released on DVD in 2003.
15-year old girls from a rundown council estate in Bradford babysit for a relatively affluent couple living in a large private house in a more desirable part of the city.
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Rita, Sue and Bob Too is a 1986 British film directed by Alan Clarke about two West Yorkshire schoolgirls who have a sexual fling with a married man. It is adapted by Andrea Dunbar from her 1982 stage play of the same name and a 1980 play of hers, "The Arbor". Its portrayal of 'ordinary' people's lives made it a cult film soon after its cinematic release. It was released on DVD in 2003.
Plot
Two 15-year old girls from a rundown council estate in Bradford babysit for a relatively affluent couple living in a large private house in a more desirable part of the city. They start having an affair with the married man, Bob, who seduces them in his car on the moors outside Bradford. When Bob develops a preference for Rita, the two girls fall out. Sue then falls for Aslam - a Pakistani colleague from a taxi firm that she works for.
Impact
The 2000 play A State Affair, written by Robin Soans, is said to have been inspired by Rita, Sue & Bob Too. The former is again set on the Buttershaw estate, but is a much more serious play than the latter. The play ends with an entrance by a character named Lorraine, who claims to be one of Andrea Dunbar's daughters. She says, "As a piece of writing, Rita, Sue and Bob Too is OK.... as a piece of autobiography it's disgusting. She made herself look a right tart."
Filming Locations
- Buttershaw council estate - (Rita's house; Sue's flat).
- Baildon - (Bob & Michelle's house on Bramham Drive; moorland scenes).
- Haworth - (the school trip).
- Shipley - (the scene where the girls finish babysitting and are walking home past the garage)
Trivia
- In reality, the distance between Buttershaw and Baildon is six miles, so the girls would have had a long walk home the night they left Bob's on foot.
- The line: "Send 'em on Manningham Lane, it's the best place for 'em" is a reference to Bradford's Red Light district - but, in fact, it was Lumb Lane which was synonymous with (and infamous for) prostitution in Bradford during the 1980s, albeit Lumb Lane is in Manningham.
- Bob's & Michelle's kids in the film are actually George Costigan's own children.
- Lesley Sharp is only a couple of years older than Michelle Holmes & Siobhan Finneran.
- Maureen Long, who had a non-speaking role in the film as Rita's mother, had survived an attack by the Yorkshire Ripper.
- The band Black Lace appear in the film performing a song at a nightclub.
- The Bollywood movie Sue and her Pakistani boyfriend Aslam are watching is Sholay, the scene features the song "Haa Jab Tak Hai Jaan".
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