The first hour is given to aimless glimpses of aimless existences, and the second, in which Colin finds a sort of deliverance, is contrived in concept and awkward in execution.
Meantime
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United Kingdom · 1983
1h 47m
Director Mike Leigh
Starring Phil Daniels, Tim Roth, Jeffrey Robert, Pam Ferris
Genre Comedy, Drama, TV Movie
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In this realistic, understated, and subtly funny drama, a working-class London family living in the East End struggles amid recession and hopelessness in the 1980s. Insightfully showing the day-to-day reality of the British working class, this film shines a light on the impacts of limited opportunity on one family's hopes, fears, and relationships.
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Leigh captures the restless, maddening, emasculating, demoralizing stench of poverty and unemployment with an acuity and piquancy that’s nearly unrivaled in cinema.
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