Meantime(Movie, 1983)

Name: Meantime
Genre: Drama, Comedy, TV Movie
Released: 1983
Duration: T01:47:00
Rating: 3.4

1h 47min | Genres: Drama, Comedy, TV Movie

Rating: 3.4/5 (with 36 votes)

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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Duration: 1h 47min

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About Meantime

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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Trailer for Meantime + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

Trailer(Trailer, 1:13)

Trailer (Trailer) | Mike Leigh in conversation with Jarvis Cocker (Full conversation) (Featurette) | Mike Leigh and Jarvis Cocker Discuss MEANTIME (Featurette)

Additional Information

Production country: United Kingdom (UK)

Made by: Channel 4 Television, Central Productions, Mostpoint

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN)

Translated into 8 languages: English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Korean (KO), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 07/23/1986 (World premiere: 10/16/1983)

Cast: Tim Roth, Phil Daniels, Gary Oldman, Alfred Molina, Pam Ferris, Marion Bailey

Director: Mike Leigh

Screenwriter: Mike Leigh

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Parastaikaa"

"Időközben"

Keywords: sibling relationship, dole, skinhead, working class, east end, london, england

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Meantime(Movie, 1983)

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