Rita, Sue and Bob Too
Movie • 1987 • Comedy
ReportRealistic story of working class Yorkshire life. Two schoolgirls have a sexual fling with a married man. Serious and light-hearted by turns. 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 Michelle's (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 occurrence. 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.
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A couple of dogs are filmed fighting in the opening sequence - it's unclear whether the dogs were put together by the crew and encouraged to fight, or if the filming crew happened to see a pair of dogs about to fight and thought it'd make a good shot. Neither dog seems injured by the little scrap, but having dogs actually fighting in the movie makes it a yes to me.
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Sue's father is always seen drunk.
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27 year old Bob sleeps with Rita and Sue, who are both 15 - below the UK age of consent. Sue also dates Aslam - it's unclear how old he is, but he's likely between 18 and 20.
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Bob cheats on his wife Michelle, and is stated to have done so even before meeting Rita and Sue.
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Sue's father racially insults and threatens Aslam, a Pakistani man.
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