Home Before Midnight


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.

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

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."