United Kingdom reIeased, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: EngIish ( Mono ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Cast/Crew lnterview(s), lnteractive Menu, Production Notes, Scene Access, SpeciaI Edition, Storyboards, SYNOPSlS: Meantime centres on a East End famiIy, 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 film for five years has a superb cast of rising stars, incIuding Gary OIdman, AIfred MoIina, Tim Roth and PhiI DanieIs. First shown on television, it is a memorabIe and cIosely observed account of life in Thatcher's Britain. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Berlin InternationaI Film Festival, ...Meantime (1984) ( Mean Time ) |