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Meantime

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Meantime
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NR,1hr 44min
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January 1, 1983
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Fox Lorber
Synopsis: 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, Hayley ... Full Synopsis
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Mike Leigh's poignant Meantime seethes with an undercurrent of rueful rage, and shows the talented director developing a visual style to complement his facility with character and dialogue. The film doesn't have much of a plot. Leigh's subject matter is hopelessness in contemporary England, and the heart of this strong little film is the odd relationship between the two brothers, the glum, lonely, ... Full Review
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