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Rita, Susie et Bob... aussi !

Original title: Rita, Sue and Bob Too
  • 1987
  • 12
  • 1h 29m
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6.6/10
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George Costigan, Siobhan Finneran, and Michelle Holmes in Rita, Susie et Bob... aussi ! (1987)
Realistic story of working-class Yorkshire life, alternately serious and light-hearted, as two schoolgirls have a sexual fling with a married man.
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Realistic story of working-class Yorkshire life, alternately serious and light-hearted, as two schoolgirls have a sexual fling with a married man.Realistic story of working-class Yorkshire life, alternately serious and light-hearted, as two schoolgirls have a sexual fling with a married man.Realistic story of working-class Yorkshire life, alternately serious and light-hearted, as two schoolgirls have a sexual fling with a married man.

  • Director
    • Alan Clarke
  • Writer
    • Andrea Dunbar
  • Stars
    • Siobhan Finneran
    • Michelle Holmes
    • Willie Ross
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    6.6/10
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    • Director
      • Alan Clarke
    • Writer
      • Andrea Dunbar
    • Stars
      • Siobhan Finneran
      • Michelle Holmes
      • Willie Ross
    • 71User reviews
    • 27Critic reviews
    • 71Metascore
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    Siobhan Finneran
    Siobhan Finneran
    • Rita
    Michelle Holmes
    Michelle Holmes
    • Sue
    Willie Ross
    • Sue's Father
    Danny O'Dea
    Danny O'Dea
    • Paddy
    David Britton
    • Rita's Brother
    Mark Crompton
    • Rita's Brother
    Stuart Goodwin
    Stuart Goodwin
    • Rita's Brother
    Max Jackman
    • Rita's Brother
    Andrew Krauz
    • Rita's Brother
    Simon Waring
    • Rita's Brother
    Maureen Long
    • Rita's Mother
    Joyce Pembroke
    • Lawn Mower Lil
    Lesley Sharp
    Lesley Sharp
    • Michelle
    George Costigan
    George Costigan
    • Bob
    Patti Nicholls
    • Sue's Mother
    Jane Atkinson
    • Helen
    Bryan Heeley
    • Michael
    Paul Oldham
    • Lee
    • Director
      • Alan Clarke
    • Writer
      • Andrea Dunbar
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    7tomgillespie2002

    Will unsettle some but delight others

    British playwright Andrea Dunbar combined two of her stage plays to create the movie script for Rita, Sue and Bob Too, a movie which, in my family at least, is somewhat fondly remembered as a naughty and gleefully foul-mouthed comedy about an older, married man who starts a sexually-charged relationship with two schoolgirls who babysit his children. 30 years on, the subject matter could be slightly troubling, and it just may be exactly that for some people seeing it for the first time. Yet with the tagline "Thatcher's Britain with her knickers down!" and the socially aware Alan Clarke at the helm, it's clear that the film is much more than a titillating throwback to the Carry On days, and paints an incredibly grim picture of working-class life in Bradford, and of Britain as a whole.

    Rita (Downton Abbey's Siobhan Finneran) and Sue (Michelle Holmes) are two bubbly and outgoing girls making some extra cash on the side by babysitting for middle-class couple Bob (George Cositgan) and Michelle (Lesley Sharp). While driving the girls home one night, Bob takes a detour to the moors where he proceeds to have sex with both of them, one after the other. The threesome start a potentially damaging relationship, with the girls having to deal with a troubled home- life and the pressures of school gossip, and Bob coming under scrutiny from his wife, who he has cheated on many times before. As Bob and Rita grow closer and Sue finds herself in an abusive relationship with young Pakistani Aslam (Kulvinder Ghir), close bonds are broken and lives are ruined, when all Bob really wants is to get his rocks off.

    It is a film that would never get made nowadays, but Clarke's film never attempts to make any stance on the morality of the characters' actions. For a guy who sounds like a complete scumbag on paper, Bob is a surprisingly likable, if obviously flawed, chap. Rita and Sue are so loud, abrasive and willing to participate in the bizarre three-way that they it's impossible to view them as victims. The picture painted by Dunbar and Clarke of a crumbling Britain in the grip of austerity suggests that the central characters are acting out of boredom and to escape the banality of their suffocating environment. It is a socioeconomic drama cleverly disguised as an old-fashioned sex farce, and succeeds in being socially observant and laugh-out-loud funny. The introduction to Sue's frenetic home- life is a mixture of amusing one-liners and kitchen-sink angst, and this lopsided tone is consistent throughout the rest of the film. With its lack of ethical judgement amidst such a potentially creepy subject matter, Rita, Sue and Bob Too with unsettle some but delight others.
    7sarah-508-649421

    Talk Like That's Dirty In Our House ...

    .. talk like that and I'd get a belt .. hello 1980s how I've missed you. Before everyone gets up in arms about the smooth talking Bob and his two girls - these two girls at time of filming were both in their 20s!

    This for me when I was watching back in 1987 was the closest we could get to porn. No internet porn. No adult channels. Only porn videos you could get from some dodgy fella at work. So this was it. We were having a gang bang. Having a born. A bit of a three some one the moors with the horn honking and smooth Bob telling you to shift your bum up whilst he prepared to go again with Rita.

    Be prepared for some language no longer allowed now a days that was used to described the corner shop way back when and just take the film with a pinch of salt. Get stuck in there!
    dannyfitzuk

    This is a vastly under_rated film

    Someone has previously posted that this film is about class and social division which is certainly true and one of the many sub-texts of the screenplay. It interests me that reaction to this film also seems to be delineated along class lines and social division. When I've mentioned this film in passing to middle-class types they turn their noses up in horror and say this film is so 'depressing'. In contrast, to anyone from a hum-drum town anywhere in the British Isles (in my case Ireland) or inner city working class background, a mention of the film if they've seen it, brings on a laugh and smiles of recognition of shared experiences.

    Hyper-realism may prevail in this film but there are many many reasons to watch it. The most important of which is to be reminded, if one needs reminding, what devastating changes took place during Thatcher's political reign during the 80's. The appalling errosion of social housing and services, and the introduction of the exploitative Youth Training Schemes which paid a pittance to participants. Overcrowded classrooms, and few opportunities to socialise meant teenagers had to make their own fun just like Rita and Sue.

    To me no other film evokes the 80's like this film, it always brings me out in tears of laughter as I recognise the characters from my own life. Practically every girl in my home town dressed exactly like Rita and Sue, bare legged and white stillettoed. I can't remember any other film that captures the teenage mischieve-ness and innocence of 80's teenagers. That scene where they go to the museum with the other school girls and exiting onto a cobbled Yorkshire street Sue utters the immortal line: '..she called me a slag so I hit her!, after assaulting a virgin classmate, is a real hoot. For me the funniest scene is when Rita and Sue start giggling in embarassment as Bob and The Wife start having a barny after returning home after a night on the tiles. (N.B. if Rita and Sue have been hired as babysitters how come we never see the kid they're babysitting?)

    This film is not depressing. The two main protagonists (Rita and Sue) are finding fun, excitement and adventure (isn't it better to be walking around in cow dung getting fresh air and a 'jump' from the middle class neighbour in a car than loitering around a dreary housing estate?) as an antidote to their hopeless circumstances. They don't feel anymore more victimised than Bob's wife. They maybe poor and working class; but they're getting bonked regularly unlike Bob's missus!

    The performances are absolutely sterling, there are no false moves or corny lines. And Lesley Sharp is truly comical as she jumps on Bob's suit and calls him every name under the sun. For me the actor who shines most is Michelle Holmes, and I always love watching her whatever role she's playing ever since seeing her in this film.

    I wish the bourgeois critics could put aside their own prejudices and snobberies and see this film for what it really is. A gritty realistic picture of 80's England and a precursor to the highly successful 'Full Monty'. It is also a great heart warming film for adults that was way ahead of its time when it was being made in the mid 80's. Every time I see it I laugh out loud - if you're ever feeling a bit down, watch this film! It will blow the cobwebs away completely, trust me!

    As far as I'm concerned this is up there with 'Brief Encounter' as a classic British film. I'm serious!
    ben_catt

    Brilliant from beginning to end....

    This film really should be used in schools as a realistic portrayal of English life in the eighties.

    There are some literally side splittingly funny scenes in this film. The most memorable are those of Sue's alcoholic Dad and his antics. I don't know if the director was meaning to show him as being really funny but some of the things he comes out with are absolutely brilliant.

    My favourite moment is when Sue gets back from baby sitting the first time. His quote "cos there's nowt opp-en! That's how!" is brilliant.

    Watch this film, it will make you laugh out loud.
    8Sleepin_Dragon

    ...it was acceptable in the 80's....

    Middle aged, married man Bob starts a sexual fling with his babysitters, schoolgirls Rita and Sue.

    The first thing to point out, they'd never get away with this film nowadays, I imagine that some will watch in horror, outraged by the storyline, a story that probably had more than a hint of realism.

    It's almost impossible to explain what this film is, pretty much a comedy drama, but it's so much more. The sheer variety of content is still so impressive, it's funny, it's sad, it shows all sides of life, good and bad.

    The performances are spot on, Costigan and Sharp are great, but Holmes and Finneran steal it.

    Expect to see some wonderfully hideous 1980's decor, that pink leather sofa on the patterned red carpet, the green jardiniere, not the most stylish era.

    It's a classic, but one where you'll need to remember the time it was made.

    8/10.

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    • Trivia
      Andrea Dunbar, the writer of this film, died in 1990 of a brain hemorrhage in The Beacon pub, a few years after it had been used as the location for the dad stumbling out of the pub at the beginning.
    • Goofs
      As they are walking down the street during the school trip the boom mic is visible in the bottom left shop window.
    • Quotes

      Sue's Dad: [Sue comes in at 2am; her Dad is sitting there with a baseball bat] Where the fuck have you been?

      Sue: Baby sitting.

      Sue's Dad: Not just till 2 o'clock in the fuckin' morning you haven't, don't lie to me lass!

      Sue: I'm not, you ask me mum.

      Sue's Dad: Well yer mum's a lyin' bastard an all and I'll wrap this round ya fuckin' neck!

      [throws bat down]

      Sue: [blows a huff] Mum!

      Sue's Mum: What?

      Sue: Come and tell him!

      Sue's Dad: You're a lying little shit!

      Sue's Mum: Oh, I'm fucking fed up with him! What do you think yer fuckin' playing at?

      Sue's Dad: You try to tell me that she's been baby sitting till this fuckin' time?

      Sue's Mum: How do you know she hasn't?

      Sue's Dad: Cause' there's nowt open that's how!

      Sue: There is!

      Sue's Mum: Night Clubs.

      Sue's Dad: Well I don't fuckin' believe yer, next time I will wrap it round yer neck.

      Sue's Mum: Just be careful I don't bloody wrap it round yours!

      Sue's Dad: Anyway, why don't you fuck off back to bed?

      Sue's Mum: I'm sleeping in here, you're sleeping on yer bloody own.

      Sue's Dad: Do what yer like.

      Sue's Mum: I bloody will, don't worry!

      Sue's Dad: Fuck it, I'm going to bed.

      Sue: Oh go on.

      Sue: Aren't you going to bed?

      Sue's Mum: I'm not getting in with him!

    • Connections
      Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Back to the Beach/Nadine/Dirty Dancing/Rita, Sue and Bob Too! (1987)
    • Soundtracks
      The Gang Bang
      Performed by Black Lace

      Written and Composed by Alan Barton and Dene Michael (as Dean Michael)

      Published by Flair Records

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    • Release date
      • September 16, 1987 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Rita, Sue and Bob Too
    • Filming locations
      • 5 Bramham Drive, Baildon, Shipley, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK(Bob's house)
    • Production companies
      • British Screen Productions
      • Channel Four Films
      • Umbrella Films
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $124,167
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $7,947
      • Jul 19, 1987
    • Gross worldwide
      • $124,167
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 29 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.66 : 1

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