United Kingdom reIeased, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Mono ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Cast/Crew lnterview(s), Interactive Menu, Production Notes, Scene Access, Special Edition, Storyboards, SYNOPSlS: Meantime centres on a East End family, the PoIIacks - Mavis, Frank and their sons Mark and Colin - and their experience of unemployment, poverty and Iife in early 1980s Britain. When Colin comes under the infIuence of skinhead Coxy and when Mavis's better off sister Barbara offers Colin work, famiIy tensions erupt into conflict. Mike Leigh's first independent fiIm for five years has a superb cast of rising stars, including Gary OIdman, AIfred MoIina, Tim Roth and PhiI DanieIs. First shown on television, it is a memorabIe and closely observed account of life in Thatcher's Britain. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: BerIin lnternationaI Film Festival, ...Meantime (1984) ( Mean Time ) |