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Rita, Sue And Bob Too [DVD] [1986]

DVD ~ Siobhan Finneran
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  • Actors: Siobhan Finneran, Michelle Holmes, George Costigan, Lesley Sharp, Kulvinder Ghir
  • Directors: Alan Clarke
  • Writers: Andrea Dunbar
  • Producers: Oscar Lewenstein, Patsy Pollock, Sanford Lieberson
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Cinema Club
  • DVD Release Date: 22 Sep 2003
  • Run Time: 89 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004WIA7
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 41,062 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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British films about sex are fairly rare, and mostly embarrassing: from the painfully anxious (Brief Encounter) to the hopelessly naff (the Carry On films). What a treat then is Rita, Sue and Bob Too, Alan Clarke's filming of a stage play by young Andrea Dunbar. It's an unsentimental, gleefully lewd comedy about shagging. Tagged for its cinema release in 1987 as "Thatcher's Britain with its knickers down", it even provoked a minor moral hullabaloo in the newspapers.

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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Language: English, Dolby Digital
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Rip-roaring tragi-comedy which is up there with the best, 12 Mar 2001
By "chrishyams" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rita, Sue And Bob Too [VHS] [1987] (VHS Tape)
Rita, Sue & Bob Too is one of those rare British comedy drama movies which actually works from start to finish. This is the story of two 'scrubbers' from a rough n' ready Bradford estate who quickly become infatuated with their babysitting employer, Bob, who just happens to think he's God's gift to women, although his frigid wife certainly does'nt appear to think so. In order to get his leg over after months of living a sexless life, Bob illicitly get's involved with both babysitters, and gives them a 'good drive' home in more ways than one up on the moors. Cue hilarious scenes at the local nighclub, where both girls hot-dance with Bob to Black Lace's novelty song 'We're Having A Gang Bang' while his wife looks-on disgustedly, and the domestic conflicts between Sue and her constantly p**sed-up father, with more f-words on show than the F-section of the New Oxford dictionary. But it's all scripted within context and is thus very funny.

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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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Funniest Film to take you back to your Babysitting Days!, 21 Mar 2002
2 young girls babysitting for couple, the husband is a bit of a romeo. See the antics that the girls and Bob get up too.... really funny - it had me in hysterics. It could so happen, so what NOT to let your daughters do as far as babysitting goes. Some extreme language used, but all part of the film.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious, gritty Northern sex comedy, 16 May 2006
By Ian Phillips (Bolton, Lancashire, UK) - See all my reviews
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Rita, Sue And Bob Too was adapted by Andrea Dunbar from two of her own controversial plays. Rita (Siobhan Finneran) and Sue (Michelle Holmes) are two teenagers living on a run-down council estate in Bradford who both share a job babysitting for Bob (George Costigan) and Michelles (Lesley Sharp) children. Whilst giving them a lift home one night, Bob decides to take Rita and Sue up to a deserted, country-side landscape. Clearly knowing what he has in mind, Rita and Sue are only too happy to oblige and both have a sexual encounter with him that becomes a regular occurence. Despite the blatant politically-incorrect nature of the film, this does emerge as a somewhat controversial, though enduringly amusing film that has a sharp, gritty undertone. The film shifts direction half way through but shrewdly brings the characters all back together again and the ending is hilarious! Michelle Holmes, Siobhan Finneran and George Costigan (all respected T.V actors/esses) play their parts perfectly, displaying a raw and instinctive edge to their characterisations. The film was released in the mid 1980's and has stood the test of time, still making enjoyable viewing today. Worth watching.

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