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Rita (Siobhan Finneran) and Sue (Michelle Holmes) are two giggly Bradford lasses stuck on a ramshackle housing estate. They keep themselves in fags by occasional baby-sitting for nouveau riche couple Bob (George Costigan) and Michelle (Lesley Sharp). Bob fancies himself rotten, but Michelle has ruled that sex is off the menu. So one night, driving Rita and Sue home, Bob detours to the Yorkshire moors and offers the girls a little something extra in his front seat. Rita and Sue decide to grab it while they can.
Alan Clarke's cult following is founded on his bleak, brilliant films about violent young men (Scum, The Firm, Made in Britain). But Rita, Sue is a tribute to Clarkey's ribald sense of humour. It even sports a cameo from novelty pop-act Black Lace, performing their non-hit "Gang-Bang". Teenage debutantes Holmes and Finneran are terrific--just watch them dancing lustily around Bob's red leather sofa to Bananarama. In support, Clarke wisely cast skilled northern comedians like Patti Nicholls and Willie Ross, as Sue's foul-mouthed mum and dad. Amid the laughs, Clarke as usual doesn't stint from showing us the harsh, unlovely side of life. He shot the film on location at Bradford's Buttershaw estate, where Andrea Dunbar grew up and where, tragically, she died of a brain haemorrhage only a few years after the film's release. --Richard Kelly
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In Rita, Sue And Bob Too [1986], a married man gets a little too involved with his two teenage babysitters. This is a cheeky British romp from director Alan Clarke, starring George Costigan.
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The scene where Bob's wife confronts him when she find's out about his infidelity is an absolutely classic, and involves one of the funniest lines in British movie history. The film also has some tragic moments, with Sue getting involved with an Asian woman-beater (a bit over-sterotypical here )while Rita gets up the duff with nowhere to turn, refusing to go back to finish her studies. It is here where we see that Sue is likely to survive the rigours of life (she is the brighter of the two), with Rita likely to struggle through poor choices, no self-confidence and a complete lack of direction.
Overall, RSABT combines a perfect blend of plot, brilliantly-played northern comedy (and great casting)with a tragic subtext throughout. It also gives us a small insight into Thatcher's Britain in the mid-1980's, where the class-divide was getting wider by the day. Highly recommended, but not for one for the faint-hearted !
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