The read
It runs a compact 1h 12m.
Synopsis
Seventeen-year-old Richard and his parents take their annual seaside holiday in a guesthouse on England's east coast in the 1950s. Julia, a teenage girl holidaying with her parents in a nearby guesthouse, catches Richard's eye, but her Dutch friend Anna is intent on causing trouble.
Ratings
IMDb7.1/10
7 audience votes
Key crew
- Tristram PowellDirector
- Michael PalinWriter
Cast
- Edward Rawle-HicksRichard
- Pippa HinchleyAnna
- John NettletonRichard's Father
- Pat HeywoodRichard's Mother
- Oona KirschJulia
- Allan CuthbertsonMr Horrobin
- Janine DuvitskiBetty
- Graham CrowdenHeadmaster
- John WaglandEdwin
- Stuart MansfieldKeith
- Timothy BatesonMr Macklin
- Charles McKeownMr Hargreaves
Themes
seasidesemi autobiographical1950steenage protagonist