I felt very uncomfortable watching this film, yes it is a great portrayal of 1980's Britain but the two girls in question were school girls, both seemed pretty vulnerable, one certainly came from a home with a loveless and violent father. The two girls needed protection from predators like Bob but the film almost seemed to celebrate the affair. There was nothing funny about it. Some of the comments on here sum thing up, they call the girls scrubbers, slags etc. Well they're not, they're schoolchildren. We have the Jimmy Saville story breaking and at the same time the Rochdale abuse case and the same sort of language was being used there by the authorities when in fact what was happening was abuse, adults who should have been protecting children dismissing them as prostitutes and slags.
Bob was employing those girls as a babysitter, as such he was an employer and had a duty of care, instead he abused them.
Bob was employing those girls as a babysitter, as such he was an employer and had a duty of care, instead he abused them.