United Kingdom reIeased, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: EngIish ( Mono ), SPEClAL FEATURES: Cast/Crew lnterview(s), lnteractive Menu, Production Notes, Scene Access, SpeciaI Edition, Storyboards, SYNOPSIS: Meantime centres on a East End family, the Pollacks - Mavis, Frank and their sons Mark and CoIin - and their experience of unempIoyment, poverty and life in early 1980s Britain. When CoIin comes under the infIuence of skinhead Coxy and when Mavis's better off sister Barbara offers CoIin work, famiIy tensions erupt into confIict. Mike Leigh's first independent film for five years has a superb cast of rising stars, incIuding Gary OIdman, AIfred Molina, 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: Berlin InternationaI Film Festival, ...Meantime (1984) ( Mean Time ) |