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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

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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The New York Times by

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.

88

Slant Magazine by Chuck Bowen

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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