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Meantime

  • Dir: Mike Leigh

  • UK, 1983, English, 107mins, DCP

  • Cast: Tim Roth, Gary Oldman, Marion Bailey, Phil Daniels

Following his cinema debut Bleak Moments (1971), Mike Leigh spent over a decade working for TV, culminating in him shooting the grimy realist film Meantime for Channel 4. In a fractious family with three men unemployed, adult son Mark is a loose cannon and his mentally challenged brother Colin (Tim Roth) is falling under the sway of hyperactive skinhead Coxy (Gary Oldman). Fissures break open when a middle-class aunt tries to hire Colin for house painting, unwittingly leading the lad to find his voice. An intimate portrait of dysfunction, disquiet and stagnancy in Thatcherera London.

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The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to the project through the Film Development Fund.
The funding support bears no relationship whatsoever to the content of, or views expressed in this project.

The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to the project through the Film Development Fund.
The funding support bears no relationship whatsoever to the content of, or views expressed in this project.