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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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