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Rita, Sue and Bob Too

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United Kingdom · 1987
Rated R · 1h 30m
Director Alan Clarke
Starring Michelle Holmes, Siobhan Finneran, George Costigan, Lesley Sharp
Genre Comedy, Drama

Rita and Sue are two teenagers living in working class Bradford, West Yorkshire. The friends share a job babysitting Bob and Michelle's children. Whilst driving them home one night, Bob takes the girls to deserted, countryside landscape, where Rita and Sue both have sex with Bob. These encounters become a regular occurrence, causing conflict in the lives of all three.

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Miami Herald by

Rita, Sue and Bob Too is ultimately like a one-night stand. When it's all over, it leaves you, not laughing, but feeling soiled and rather depressed. [23 Nov 1987, p.C6]

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Chicago Tribune by Dave Kehr

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]

70

Newsweek by David Ansen

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]

50

Washington Post by Hal Hinson

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.

75

Chicago Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum

Shot in and around the town of Bradford in long, loping takes, this sprightly comedy, adapted by Andrea Dunbar from her own play, has some of the energy that one associates with the better exploitation films that used to be produced by Roger Corman.

75

Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

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.

75

Portland Oregonian by Ted Mahar

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]

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