She was ordered to repay £5,400 at £3 per week. This darkly comic tale of two sexually confident working-class Bradford teenagers might have charmed the critics - but many closer to home failed to see the joke. You could also do it yourself at any point in time. Visited today in Baildon. She got pregnant at 15, gave birth to a stillborn baby, and wrote a play about it called The Arbor for her English CSE. Dunbar had never been to London before — she’d never even been inside a theatre. Sue rebuffs them. [4][5][6][7][8], Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave it 3 out of 4 stars, and having watched it twice noted that some audiences were uneasy at the mixed tone of this sometimes depressing, sometimes saucy comedy.[9]. Would you like Wikipedia to always look as professional and up-to-date? Some of the filming locations around West Yorkshire include:[3], The film gained a mostly positive reception from critics. After Bob drops Sue off at her house, Aslam attacks Sue, thinking that she was out having sex with Bob. The DVD is released on 22 May, price £19.99. That's it. They refuse to let him in, but Aslam tries to find a way to break in, all the while trying to convince Sue to come back to him. She wrote The Arbor (1980) and Rita, Sue and Bob Too (1982), an autobiographical drama about the sexual adventures of teenage girls living in a run-down part of Bradford, West Yorkshire.She wrote most of the adaptation for the film Rita, Sue and Bob Too (1987). 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Dunbar’s comic vision is gloriously unsentimental: sex is a laugh, romance is a con and female friendship is the only sort of love that lasts. The £380,000 property in Baildon, West Yorkshire, belonged to Bob, and was the house where his relationships and love triangle with his babysitters Rita and Sue began. Looks the same as in 1986 when the film was made. They go to the cinema, and then off to a grassy hillside spot where they start kissing. At the age of 18, Dunbar became the youngest playwright to have her work performed at London's Royal Court Theatre. They go upstairs and Bob goes to get a bath. .css-14iz86j-BoldText{font-weight:bold;}The terminally ill daughter of the playwright whose work inspired the film Rita, Sue and Bob Too has called for a permanent memorial to her mother. Adelle Stripe, the author of the novel Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile, which was based on Dunbar's life, said: "There is a blue plaque on her house at Brafferton Arbor in Buttershaw but there isn't anything that tells us Andrea was from this city in the city centre. Defending her, Rita kicks him in the knees, and then Sue kicks him in his groin, disabling him enough for Sue and Rita to escape. On the way out, Bob approaches Sue and invites her for another escapade. Ms Pearce said: "It would be nice to see it but if it doesn't happen, it doesn't happen because God's got no words for anybody, has he? They go back to Bob's house, where Rita tends to Sue's wounds, and Aslam shows up at Bob's door. When she gets there, she finds Aslam attacking Sue. The British comedy film Rita, Sue and Bob Too, based on life in the city's Buttershaw Estate, was released in 1987, Lisa Pearce, 36, who has cancer, said: "I'd like to see something that marks her name in Bradford because she put Bradford on the map, really.". Bob warns the girls that Mavis will surely tell Michelle she saw them together. They nonchalantly agree, and he and the girls plan to make it a regular thing. Sue and Rita’s relationship is the only romantic element in the movie — a love so pure that even their menage-à-trois with Bob can’t spoil it. Rita, Sue and Bob Too was an unexpected movie hit when it was released. Its portrayal of "ordinary" people's lives made it a cult film soon after its cinematic release. Realistic story of working class Yorkshire life. The play and film made Dunbar and the Buttershaw estate the focus of often unwelcome publicity. Sue’s boyfriend woos her like a lovesick swain, then beats her up for talking to another man. The strapline of the film was: "Thatcher's Britain with her knickers down."[2]. To earn some money, they babysit for Bob and Michelle (Lesley Sharp), a better-off couple who live in a detached house in a nicer part of town. Buy Rita, Sue and Bob Too tickets and find Rita, Sue and Bob Too schedule, show dates, seating charts and information on GameStub.com. This darkly comic tale of two sexually confident working-class Bradford teenagers might have charmed the critics - … Another thing that’s changed is that the woman who wrote it, Andrea Dunbar, is long since dead. ‘The film is about the healthy relationship between two teenage girls in the last year at the local comprehensive, and the everyday traumas they share together,’ she retorted. They convince Michelle that Bob isn't sleeping with either of them. But it would mean a lot. Dunbar told her about The Arbor. He and another driver make a bet on who can get her into bed first. Her teacher was so impressed that he sent it to Yorkshire TV, who turned it down (they said the language was unaccept-able). She died two years later of a brain haemorrhage, aged just 29. ", "Film: Togetherness in 'Rita, Sue and Bob Too, "Movie Review : Love's Got Nothing To Do With 'Rita, Sue & Bob, "3 Savage Commentaries on the British Scene", Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire, Willie Ross and Patti Nichols as Sue's parents, David Britton, Mark Crampton, Stuart Googwin, Max Jackman, Andrew Krauz and Simon Waring as Rita's brothers. He tries to plead with Sue, threatening suicide if she doesn't come back. Yet Rita, Sue and Bob Too was a delight, one of the best British films of the 1980s, and this month it’s being rereleased in a new restoration by the BFI. Not much (for anyone with eyes and ears, it’s all horribly familiar), but it does reveal a good deal about what makes good writing. Now that her life had become a movie her relations with her neighbours shifted. 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"If nothing can be put in place before I go, obviously my brother will still be around to see it. Her father comes home from the pub drunk and shouts racist comments at Aslam, causing Sue to leave home and move in with Aslam and his sister. Rita and Sue are two teenage girls in their final year of school who live on a run down council estate in Bradford. Rita, Sue and Bob Too is at BFI Southbank (www.bfi.org.uk) on 15 May, with a Q&A with cast and crew. Like The Arbor, Rita, Sue and Bob Too was drawn from her life on this estate: like Sue, she’d been beaten up by her boyfriend; like Sue, she’d shagged a married man. Video, Undercover in the schools that chain boys, The woman who ferries Covid patients in a school bus. She also reveals that she is pregnant with Bob's child. The situation is interrupted by the arrival of the police, having been called by a neighbour. Bob takes Rita to a furnished showhome on a new housing development, where they have sex. 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