Take a Girl Like You (2000)

Set in the 1950s it follows the progress of twenty year old Jenny Bunn as she moves from her family home in the North of England to a London suburb to teach primary school children Jenny is a traditional Northern workingclass girl whose striking good looks are in sharp contrast to her prosaic upbringing and to her strong belief that a girl should preserve her virginity until her wedding night Because of her attractiveness Jennys views on virginity and marriage cause conflicts The film centres on the increasingly desperate and cruel attempts of Patrick Standish a 30 year old schoolmaster at the local grammar school to seduce Jenny against a backdrop of his skirmishes with his school authorities and with the shabby suburban middle class milieu in which the film is set