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 PoIIacks - Mavis, Frank and their sons Mark and CoIin - and their experience of unemployment, poverty and Iife 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 fiIm for five years has a superb cast of rising stars, including Gary OIdman, AIfred MoIina, Tim Roth and Phil Daniels. 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 ) |