Rita, Sue and Bob Too is a 1987 British comedy-drama film directed by Alan Clarke and starring Michelle Holmes, Siobhan Finneran, George Costigan, and Lesley Sharp.

Set in Bradford, West Yorkshire, the film is about two teenage schoolgirls who have a sexual affair with and are seduced by a married man.

[2] It was written by Andrea Dunbar, who adapted the film from two of her stage plays: Rita Sue and Bob Too (1982) and The Arbour (1980),[3] which were first performed at the Royal Court Theatre in London.

Rita and Sue are two teenage girls in their final year of school who live on a run-down council estate in Bradford, West Yorkshire.

One night while driving the girls home, Bob takes them to the Yorkshire moors where he complains to them about the lack of intimacy in his marriage.

Michelle suspects her husband is having an affair due to his past infidelity and finding a packet of Durex condoms in his trousers.

To get over Bob, Sue starts dating Aslam, a Pakistani boy who is a driver for the local taxi firm she works at.

Their budding relationship is hampered by Sue's father, who comes home from the pub drunk and shouts racist abuse at Aslam.

Playwright and screenwriter Andrea Dunbar based the story partly on her own life and on "two raucous girls she overheard in the ladies' toilet at Keighley Market".

[8]Other locations included Baildon Moor (Moorland scenes) and 5 Bramham Drive in Baildon (Bob's house); Alexandra Street (Aslam's house) and Leeds Road in Bradford (Sue's workplace Luna Radio Kars); Haworth (the school trip to the Brontë Parsonage);[9] Woodhead Road in Bradford;[8] and the Staveley Garages in Shipley.

[16] He also praised director Alan Clarke's ability to "energise the whole thing with ace professionalism, just occasionally seeing the funny side of what is essentially a sad story...".

[22] The Washington Post's Hal Hinson, however, expressed that the film needed to further examine the predatory nature of Bob's actions.

[23] Screenwriter Andrea Dunbar disliked Alan Clarke's film adaptation, which changed the original ending in her play to be more upbeat, criticising: "You'd never go back with somebody who had betrayed you".

[7][15] Film Inquiry said "it contains no real plot, to speak of, essentially riding the beats of any story that deals with extra-marital affairs.

"[28] In 2024, Kate Muir of The Times called the film "a high-octane hit of comic teenage energy...[with a] mostly unspoken layer of social commentary".