Meantime (1983)
1h 47m
Running Time
October 16, 1983Release Date
Meantime (1983)
1h 47m
Running Time
October 16, 1983Release Date
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Plot.
A working-class family in London's East End is struggling to stay afloat during the recession under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's premiership. Only the mother Mavis is working; father Frank and the couple's two sons Colin, a timid, chronically shy individual and Mark, an outspoken, headstrong young man, are on the dole. This situation is contrasted by the presence of Mavis's sister Barbara, and her husband John, whose financial and social loftiness appears to be a comfortable facade over the unspoken soreness of a lackluster marriage.
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Cast & Crew.
Marion Bailey
Barbara
Tim Roth
Colin
Phil Daniels
Mark
Pam Ferris
Mavis
Jeffrey Robert
Frank
Alfred Molina
John
Gary Oldman
Coxy
Tilly Vosburgh
Hayley
Leila Bertrand
Hayley's Friend
Hepburn Graham
Boyfriend
Leila Bertrand
Hayley's Friend
Peter Wight
Estate Manager
Eileen Davies
Unemployment Benefit Clerk
Mike Leigh
Director
Herbert Norville
Man in Pub
Brian Hoskin
Barman
Graham Benson
Producer
Graham Benson
Producer
Paul Daly
Rusty
Andrew Dickson
Composer
Roger Pratt
Cinematographer
Lesley Walker
Editor
Sue Whatmough
CastingDirector
Lindy Hemming
Costume Design
Sue Gibson
Wardrobe Supervisor
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Wiki.
Meantime is a 1983 British comedy-drama television film directed by Mike Leigh and produced by Central Television for Channel 4. It stars Tim Roth, Phil Daniels and Gary Oldman. It was shown in 1983 at the London Film Festival and on Channel 4 and at the 1984 Berlin International Film Festival. According to the critic Michael Coveney, "the sapping, debilitating and demeaning state of unemployment, the futile sense of waste, has not been more poignantly, or poetically, expressed in any other film of the period."
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