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Meantime

Meantime (1981)

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Release Date: Jan 1, 1983 Wide

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Colin (Tim Roth, making his screen debut) and his brother Mark (Phil Daniels, who starred in Quadrophenia) are down and out. They live in a squalid flat with their unemployed father, Frank (Jeff Robert), and their put-upon mother, Mavis (Pam Ferris). They're on the dole, and Mark is constantly scrounging for cash and cadging drinks from his friends, among them Coxy (Gary Oldman in his screen debut), a skinhead. Colin, shy and perhaps mentally disabled, has a crush on a good-natured local girl,

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Drama, Television, Comedy

Jan 26, 1999

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Mike Leigh's first feature film is up there with his best to date. It's a great slice of nostalgia, early 80's suburbia under Thatcher. This is England is a great film but it's not real. Meantime is real, in all it's gritty glory. Roth & Goldman star along side each other for the first time in their very first films, they, and Daniels, are faultless. Excellent British film-making!
September 1, 2010
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Doctor Octopus, Commissioner Gordon and The Abomination all join forces in this 80's gem. Displays real people in a real environment trying to get on with their daily struggles of unemployment. Leigh certainly has an eye for realism, but not an ear for music. It's probably the fact this was 24 years ago now, but the music is jarring and off-putting. Roth and Phil Daniels are brilliant as brothers, displaying the right amount of bitter hatred and genuine love and concern.
September 1, 2010
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