Stars: George Costigan, Siobhan Finneran, Michelle Holmes, Lesley Sharp

Director: Alan Clarke

Summary: A hard-hitting Northern drama with strong comic overtones, based on contemporary Bradford, where two young girls, Rita and Sue, are smitten by flashy Bob, with whom they develop a sexual relationship. But when Bob's wife finds out, their situation changes ...fast.

A married man gets a little too involved with his two teenage babysitters in this cheeky British romp.

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Reviewed by: davybozal24-7
Posted on October 24, 2006 6:14 PM

A raunchy, bawdy tale from Alan Clarke, one of the UK's most respected film directors. Rita and Sue are two brassy Bradford schoolgirls on a run - down council estate, whose lives are turned upside - down when they start babysitting for Bob, a flashy middle - aged man who introduces them to the ways of the modern world. Serious and light - hearted by turns, Rita, Sue and Bob too ! is a slice of classic British cinema. This film stars Siobhan Finneran,Michelle Holmes, George Costigan and Lesley Sharp and is not to be missed. Go on ! you know it makes sense.

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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 Onfilms). 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, Sueis 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

Aspect Ratio:	14:9
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Subtitles:	None
Year:	1986
Release Date:	June 7, 2004
Runtime:	89 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	C C D 8706
Keywords:	Bob, English, Comedy, Rita, Sue, Drama
Genre:	Drama