Meantime (1983)

Directed by

Mike Leigh

Genre

drama film, crime film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 42m

Rated

15

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 107 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In 1980s London during a recession, a working-class family deals with unemployment and mounting tensions. Two brothers and their parents struggle with boredom, poverty, and frayed relationships.

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What happens

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." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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