Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow Film Review
Will You Love Me Tomorrow 1987
Watched Jul 16, 2015
Mark Cunliffe 🇵🇸's review published on Letterboxd:
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Will You Honey Me Tomorrow is a haunting and constructive Screen Two drama from 1987 inspired past the true story of Mary Bell who, as a child strangled to death 2 small boys, and was subsequently sent to Cerise Banking company Secure Unit in my hometown of St Helens. The drama tells the story of Jackie a 10 yr sometime girl jailed for the similar devastatingly inexplicable murders of three children, the youngest of whom was only four years old.
Later on spending eleven years in custody, Jackie - played by Joanne Whalley - escapes from an open prison with her more worldly wise, sexually knowledgeable friend played by Tilly Vosburgh and hitch their way to the Welsh seaside resort of Rhyl where they befriend a couple of immature guys played past Iain Glen and Phil Daniels who have arrived in town looking for piece of work. Jackie's attention is immediately captured by Glen'southward grapheme 'Sailor', so called because he briefly joined the navy. Totally naive to the means of the world, as 1 would await from someone who has spent their formative years in prison - though in stark dissimilarity to Vosburgh'south character who immediately uses her sexuality as currency gaining them a caravan to sleep in for the night from an dotty bewigged local - she believes Sailor to be her ideal and tells him, in an especially effective scene on a mountainside, 'What I want most in the whole world is to exist in love and to be loved'. He immediately scoffs at her annotate, unable to comprehend how someone tin be so innocent at 21. When he challenges her, challenge that hundreds must have fancied her before at present, commenting 'Take you ever looked at yourself in the mirror?' the script explores the notions of identity someone has when all they can meet is the fact that they are finer the nation's bogeyman (or in this case, woman/child) Meanwhile Daniels and Vosburgh'southward graphic symbol circle around 1 another in a more down to world way whilst reality slowly encroaches on the girls as the cyberspace draws closer and closer upon them.
Adrian Shergold and David Snodden's beautifully crafted, poignant script delivers life's harsh lessons to someone who has, because of her guilt, been cloistered from the earth in an extremely affecting and heartfelt manner. Similar stories can be told, but I dubiousness many have the aforementioned eye and intelligence as this Screen Two drama. My only criticism is that the drama could easily accept done without the subplot of the journalists played past Peter Wight et al, considering I don't feel it adds very much and the fact that they track down the mother of one of Jackie'south victims to Rhyl is a little too much of a coincidence to swallow. But this is a minor mumble in what is a very rewarding Goggle box play which stays with you long afterwards Carole King finishes singing Will You lot Still Love Me Tomorrow over the credits. It'south besides a moving-picture show which has a special resonance to someone similar me, who spent many a summer holiday in Rhyl during that menstruation and who has worked with loftier risk ex offenders returning to the community and all that that entails.
The cast, in detail the iv leads, are superb but special mention must go to Joanne Whalley who really could do no wrong during the 1980s, turning in outset charge per unit performances one after the other and was frequently a especially damaged, haunting presence on screen which only served to compliment - and prove she was more than - her striking looks. Trivia fans might similar to take note that many Mike Leigh regulars appear throughout the moving-picture show, with Daniels, Vosburgh and Wight (Meantime) as well as Sam Kelly in a touching and tender scene with Whalley near the terminate. Expect out besides for Rebecca Callard as the immature Jackie and her real life mother Beverley (Liz McDonald from Corrie) Callard as the WPC guarding her in her jail cell.
I vaguely recall seeing this as a child when it aired in '87 but have naturally called to class it every bit a get-go lookout man. It's bachelor to encounter in instalments on YouTube and if yous oasis't guessed already, I recommend it.
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Source: https://letterboxd.com/man_out_of_time/film/will-you-love-me-tomorrow/
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