Meantime

TV Movie
1983
Not Rated
1h 42m

IMDb RATING

7.2/10

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When one brother gets a job from their wealthy aunt, the other becomes increasingly jealous.When one brother gets a job from their wealthy aunt, the other becomes increasingly jealous.When one brother gets a job from their wealthy aunt, the other becomes increasingly jealous.

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IMDb RATING

7.2/10

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Awards
- 1 win & 1 nomination total

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Trivia
Gary Oldman suffered an eye injury on the set after one day at the rehearsal space (a factory) he and Tim Roth were throwing milk bottles around and suddenly Roth threw it up and it hit a fluorescent lighting strip which hit Gary.

Quotes
Mark: Muppet.
Colin: I am not a Muppet.

Connections
Featured in The South Bank Show: Mike Leigh (2002)

Soundtracks
Who Do You Think You Are?
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Written by Colin Tucker and John Hyde (as John Saunders)
De Wolfe Music Ltd

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8/10

A searing indictment of contemporary Britain and the way it turns its citizens into jittery caricatures.

'Meantime' is a modernist masterpiece, closer to Antonioni than Loach, all the more remarkable for having been made on TV, and transcending the incidentals of portentousness, contrivance and misogyny. Leigh doesn't simply record the monumental, faceless, soulless tenements that dwarf his characters, as a social-realist would: he allows them to shape his narrative, a rigid, static series of concrete tableaux. Leigh doesn't reduce his characters to caricature (a complaint often levelled against him) - Thatcherism does, by removing all those things - hope, work, dreams etc. - that mark humanity and individuality. As bitterly angry and funny as 'Naked'.