England,
1983, 100 min
Shown in 1986
CREDITS
- dir
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Mike Leigh
- prod
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Graham Benson
- cam
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Roger Pratt
- cast
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Marion Bailey, Phil Daniels, Tim Roth, Pam Ferris, Jeff Robert, Alfred Molina, Gary Oldman, Tily Vosburgh
- source
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Central Television, London
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COMMENTS
Part of the Discovering Mike Leigh program. Mike Leigh in person.
OTHER
Meantime is the portrait of a London family who shared a cramped East End apartment and little else. A standout among an excellent cast is Tim Roth as the simple-minded son Colin, who has gone into his father’s line of work—the dole line—while his mother spends her days playing bingo and his cynical older brother, Mark, manages to beat him at every turn in an already miserable life.
—Judy Bloch
FACTOID #95
Later to find fame with the amnesia-tinged film noir update Memento, British director Christopher Nolan was nominated for the SKYY Prize in 1998 for his first feature Following. Nolan shot the film about a writer who stalks strangers, on weekends over the course of a year on a budget of $6,000.
