''Bedtime with Rosie'' is a 1975

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comedy-drama film directed by

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and starring

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, Ivor Burgoyne and

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. It was written by Burgoyne. The onscreen title is simply ''Rosie'', and the title song was performed by singer

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Plot

Rosie, a pregnant and highly imaginative single woman on her way from Liverpool to Holland, stays overnight with her Aunt Annie at her dingy London home. While there she is forced to share a bed with her aunt's lodger Harry, a reclusive and disillusioned bachelor, who initially disapproves of her lifestyle. Eventually Rosie and Harry strike up a relationship after she admits to being molested as a child and that her pregnancy is the result of rape by her boyfriend.

Cast

as Rosie * Ivor Burgoyne as Harry *

as Annie * Johnny Briggs as the man * Margaret Heald as the girl * Tony Doonan as the drunk *

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as fantasy man (uncredited)

Critical reception

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'' wrote:

Although not the skin-flick that its title advertises, nor the Rohmer-esque tale that its story suggests, Bedtime with Rosie does continually titillate its audience with the possibility that something either lewd or meaningful is about to occur. But nothing, on either count, ever really happens. The claustrophobia of the one-room set quickly suffocates any ambiguity about the characters while Rilla's static direction keeps the story's flirtation with deceptive appearance and sordid reality firmly anchored in the latter. Even though Harry turns out not to be the inexperienced fellow he claims to be, the script never really investigates the possible ethics of the circumstance (will and/or should Harry defend his "virginity" and principles), but instead emphasises the vulgar implications stemming from it. Outside of the amateur psychology that informs the dream sequences, the film is never funny, and for all of love's victories it is never touching.

In ''Offbeat: British Cinema's Curiosities, Obscurities and Forgotten Gems'', Darrell Buxton wrote: "The basic thread of the simple storyline ... may offer little promise, yet the cast to keep it all lively and watchable/listenable, the set design is eye catching ... and Rilla offers an occasional flourish or unusual shot."

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bedtime With Rosie 1975 films 1970s English-language films Films directed by Wolf Rilla British comedy-drama films 1975 comedy-drama films 1970s British films English-language comedy-drama films