A desultory melodrama of troubled youth on the loose, LILY WAS HERE occurs in bleakly photographed urban Holland, where 17-year-old Lily (Marion Van Thijn) holds a dreary job at a checkout counter and barely tolerates her loveless home and lustful stepfather.
Her hopes center on her boyfriend Alan (Dennis Rudge), an American serviceman from a nearby Air Force base. He promised to bring her to the US but gets killed by thugs (he's Black of course; it's depressing that even foreign films mark minority characters as disposable lambs-to-the-slaughter).
Lily is now pregnant and out of options. Determined to keep her baby, she runs away from home and comes under the s...
Released:
1992
Rated:
R
Length:
115 mins