Home Before Midnight is a 1979 British sexploitation drama film directed and produced by Pete Walker, written by Murray Smith, and starring James Aubrey, Alison Elliott and Richard Todd.
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Plot
The film is set in London and follows Mike Beresford, a 28-year-old songwriter who is charged with statutory rape after having sex with a 14-year-old girl.
Cast
James Aubrey as Mike Beresford
Alison Elliott as Ginny Wilshire
Mark Burns as Harry Wilshire
Juliet Harmer as Susan Wilshire
Richard Todd as Geoffrey Steele
Debbie Linden as Carol
Andy Forray as Vince Owen
Chris Jagger as Nick
Sharon Maughan as Helen Owen
Charles Collingwood as Burlingham
Faith Kent as Miss Heatherton
John Hewer as Donelly
Jeff Rawle as Johnnie McGee
Patrick Barr as Judge
Edward de Souza as Archer
Ian Sharrock as Malcolm
Emma Jacobs as Lindy
Leonard Kavanagh as Mr. Beresford
Joan Pendleton as Mrs. Beresford
Ivor Roberts as Inspector Gray
Claire McClellan as Tracey Wilshire
Nicholas Young as Ray
Production
The soundtrack for the film, excluding incidental music provided by Ray Russell, was written and performed by British band Jigsaw. These songs were later released on a soundtrack album.
Reception
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "After Pete Walker's series of energetic horror shockers, this cautionary tale proves limp and deathly slow-moving. Quite lacking in a sense of emotional involvement, and notably confused in its view of the social mores of Outer London, the film seems bafflingly to miss its mark at every level. Inter alia, it asks us to accept that a teenage girl would be embarrassed at addressing a twenty-six-year-old woman by her first name, that a TV interview would be transmitted complete with lubricious remarks about a third party, and that during a High Court trial witnesses would be permitted to stand idly chatting in the shadow of the dock."