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    Meantime 1983 POSTER

    Meantime

    1983

    English

    7.1

    23

    90%

    78%

    Action

    apartment building

    Comedy

    Drama

    london, england

    recession

    sibling relationship

    skinhead

    working class

    Mike Leigh Mike Leigh Director Tim Roth Tim Roth as Colin Gary Oldman Gary Oldman as Coxy Alfred Molina Alfred Molina as John Pam Ferris Pam Ferris as Mavis
    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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