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The Lovers! (1973 film)

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Meanwhile, Sandra is pregnant and planning to get married. Beryl is seated next to Geoffrey at the reception meal. Splitting up brings them closer together. He discusses going to a "match" and she wrongly assumes he is going to a football match, but it is off-season (he meant cricket). He tracks her
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for his mother's birthday, Geoffrey meets Veronica and goes off with her instead. They go to a strip bar and Veronica asks him back to her flat. However, when Veronica goes out of the room, her little brother Jeremy appears. The young boy gives Geoffrey a very technical description of "how to make a
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Boutique. Three boys stand opposite them and decide which girl they want to take out. Geoffrey Scrimshaw unwittingly ends up with Beryl Battersby, as he gets last choice. A slow, mutual admiration begins between the two of them. Their parents try to use trendy terms but are mocked because they are a
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Beryl phones him to say she does not want to ever see him again and that she will be at the school jumble sale the next day. He shows up and invites her to a football match to watch
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down to the empty football stadium and they sit and discuss relationships. Time jumps to them sitting in the same seats in a crowded stadium, with Beryl looking adoringly at him.
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Beryl and Geoffrey meet again at a house party and try to ignore each other. Both try to be "trendy" in their chat up techniques. On the stairs, Edith expounds the values of
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play. The relationship still fails to gel. They go the rooftop of Hotel Piccadilly and discuss communication and happiness. They decide they don't like each other.
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The movie was filmed in 1972 and featured views of various locations in Manchester of the time, including
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On his first meeting with her mother, they sit quietly in the living room, drinking tea and eating
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decade behind. When Geoffrey is with his male friends, they boast about non-existent conquests.
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McGarry, Peter (16 July 1973). "Hello Young Lovers - Nice To See You Again".
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of the film, later in a 4-DVD package "British Film Comedy — The 70s" with
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sandwiches. They cuddle in front of the electric fire after a game of
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The picture freezes and the caption "Not really the End" appears.
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Index


Herbert Wise
Jack Rosenthal
The Lovers
Richard Beckinsale
Paula Wilcox
Bernard Gribble
Carl Davis
British Lion Film Corporation
comedy film
Granada Television
sitcom
The Lovers
courtship
Manchester
Richard Beckinsale
Paula Wilcox
Manchester
George Best
permissive society
sardine
Scrabble
Fiddler on the Roof
Women's Lib
Huddersfield
Richard Beckinsale
Paula Wilcox
Susan Littler
Rosalind Ayres
John Comer

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