Meantime (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 47 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: August 15, 2017
- Originally Released: 1984
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Tim Roth, Gary Oldman & Alfred Molina | |
Performer: | Phil Daniels, Marion Bailey, Pam Ferris & Peter Wight | |
Directed by | Mike Leigh | |
Edited by | Lesley Walker | |
Composition by | Andrew Dickson | |
Director of Photography: | Roger Pratt |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: B- --
A powerful but bleak TV movie kitchen-sink drama.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: B+ --
A crucial glimpse into the societal ennui felt by Britain's working class during the 1980s.
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Audiences Everywhere
...An outstanding example of [Leigh's] art....It's rich in very British humor, with the wonderful actors perfectly capturing every tiny detail of their characters...
Variety
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.
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New York Times
...Painfully funny...
Sight and Sound
Meantime may very well be the template for many of Leigh's most beloved, subsequent works.
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Spectrum Culture
Product Description:
Director Mike Leigh presents another slice-of-life drama--this time focusing on a family of acerbic, terminally unemployed working-class Britons languishing in their East End council house. Frank (Jeff Robert) and Mavis (Pam Ferris) are the endlessly bickering parents of Mark (Phil Daniels) and Colin (Tim Roth). Colin is a slow-witted teenager who strikes up a disturbing friendship with Coxy (Gary Oldman), a local neo-Nazi. His aunt Barbara (Marion Bailey) tries to lure him out of his shell by hiring him to help her wallpaper her new house. Unfortunately, Mark becomes jealous over this attention shown to his younger brother, triggering a series of taunts that convince Colin into rejecting his aunt's friendly offer. Not content in her own marriage to John (Alfred Molina), Barbara turns to the bottle to help dilute her inner pain. As the days wear on, the hopelessness of each individual's lives begins to catch up with them. As is the case with most of Leigh's films from the late 1980s (HIGH HOPES, LIFE IS SWEET), there is a bittersweet, comic quality to the story that keeps it from becoming completely pessimistic. This exceptional film also benefits from excellent performances by Bailey, Daniels, Oldman, and especially Roth.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 77,527
- UPC: 715515201919
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