Meantime (1981)
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,
Jan 1, 1983 Wide
Jan 26, 1999
Cast
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Marion Bailey
Barbara -
Phil Daniels
Mark -
Tim Roth
Colin -
Jeff Robert
Frank -
Alfred Molina
John -
Gary Oldman
Coxy -
Tilly Vosburgh
Hayley -
Eileen Davies
Unemployment Benefit Cl... -
Pam Ferris
Mavis -
Herbert Norville
Man in Pub -
Peter Wight
Estate Manager -
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