Raunchy comedy as two Bradford schoolgirls take on more than simply babysitting for Bob and his aloof wife Michelle.
A hard as nails housing estate is home for Rita (Siobhan Finneran) and best mate Sue (Michelle Holmes). But every Friday night they escape the alcoholism and motor bike parts to babysit in the posh home of Bob (George Costigan) and Michelle (Lesley Sharp). Stereotypes abound as an uptight Michelle is blamed for Bob playing the field – and play he does with the two schoolgirls. But there’s never any question as to who has the upper hand – even when Sue moves in with taxi-driver Aslam (Kulvinder Ghir).
Of it’s time, social mores come under the microscope from playwright Andrea Dunbar, a resident of the housing estate where Rita, Sue and Bob Too is filmed. Brash and with a roughness to its edges ensures a level of social realism beyond its nudge nudge wink wink sexual promiscuity.
Rating: 61%
Director: Alan Clarke (Scum, Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire)
Writer: Andrea Dunbar – adapted from her stage play
Main cast: Siobhan Finneran (TV’s Happy Valley, Downton Abbey), Michelle Holmes (TV’s Coronation Street, Hollyoaks), George Costigan (Calendar Girls, TV’s Happy Valley)
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