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- 1987
- R
- Orion Classics
- 1 h 29 m
- 1987
- R
- Orion Classics
- 1 h 29 m
Summary Realistic story of working-class Yorkshire life, alternately serious and light-hearted, as two schoolgirls have a sexual fling with a married man.
Directed By: Alan Clarke
Written By: Andrea Dunbar
- 1987
- R
- Orion Classics
- 1 h 29 m
- 1987
- R
- Orion Classics
- 1 h 29 m
Rita, Sue and Bob Too
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Summary Realistic story of working-class Yorkshire life, alternately serious and light-hearted, as two schoolgirls have a sexual fling with a married man.
Directed By: Alan Clarke
Written By: Andrea Dunbar
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Generally Favorable
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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75% Positive
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
71
75% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
25% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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Like "My Beautiful Laundrette," "Rita, Sue and Bob, Too" imagines an
untraditional romantic relationship, outside the bounds of monogamy and
exclusive heterosexuality, as the only effective alternative to a social
structure that has reached the end of the line. [02 Oct 1987, p.A]
Raunchy, honest, non-judgmental comedy about two Yorkshire schoolgirls reacting against the inertia of their sink estate and sharing the favours of a randy estate agent. Adapted by Andrea Dunbar from her Royal Court play, directed by one of this country's great realists, and acted with gusto by Siobhan Finneran, Michelle Holmes and George Costigan. [01 Jan 2006, p.63]
Rita, Sue and Bob Too, also adapted by a playwright (Andrea Dunbar) from her own work, is more an out-and-out raucous, raunchy comedy, although hardly a madcap, farcical romp. [03 Oct 1987, p.C08]
This is one of those movies you talk about a lot afterward because the motives of all the characters are so complicated that you're not absolutely sure just who came out ahead.
Directed, with neither prurience nor sentimentality, by Alan Clarke, the film is a celebration of the survival instincts of two game, practical girls, but a bleak wind blows just below the surface. [03 Aug 1987, p.67]
A queasy humour remains, thanks hugely to salt-of-the-earth per-formances that hardly look like acting. [15 Nov 2006, p.33]
The movie's sense of humor is brash and shaggy, and Rita does have a couple of fliply delivered comebacks. But on the whole, there's not enough variety or definition to hold your attention. Too much is all on the same pitch.
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