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Meantime [videorecording (DVD)] / a film by Mike Leigh.

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Criterion Collection, 2017.

Working class families -- England -- London -- Drama.

Unemployment -- England -- London -- Drama.

People with mental disabilities -- Drama.

Skinheads -- Drama.

London (England) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century -- Drama.

Criterion collection ; 890.

[videorecording (DVD)] /

1 videodisc (107 min.) : Dolby digital mono. sd., col. ; 12 cm.

Originally released as a comedy-drama motion picture in 1984.

Special features: New, restored 2K digital transfer, supervised by director of photography Roger Pratt and director Mike Leigh ; new conversation between Leigh and musician Jarvis Cocker ; new conversation between actor Marion Bailey and critic Amy Raphael ; more! ; Plus: an essay by film scholar Sean O'Sullivan.

English (SDH) subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Produced by Graham Benson ; devised & directed by Mike Leigh [produced by Central Television for Channel 4].

Marion Bailey, Phil Daniels and Tim Roth with Pam Ferris, Jeff Robert, Alfred Molina, Gary Oldman, Tilly Vosburgh and Paul Daly.

"A slow-burning depiction of economic degradation in Thatchers England, Mike Leighs Meantime was the culmination of the writer-directors pioneering work in television and became his breakthrough theatrical release. Unemployment is rampant in Londons working-class East End, where a middle-aged couple and their two sons languish in a claustrophobic public housing flat. As the brothers (Phil Daniels and Tim Roth) grow increasingly disaffected, Leigh punctuates the grinding boredom of their daily existence with tense encounters, including with a priggish aunt (Marion Bailey) who has managed to become middle-class and a blithering skinhead on the verge of psychosis (a scene-stealing Gary Oldman, in his first major role). Informed by Leighs now trademark improvisational process and propelled by the lurching rhythms of its Beckett-like dialogue, Meantime is an unrelenting, often blisteringly funny look at life on the dole."--Container.

Dark comedy films.

Made-for-TV movies.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Leigh, Mike, 1943-

Bailey, Marion, 1951-

Daniels, Phil, 1958-

Molina, Alfred, 1953-

Criterion Collection (Firm)

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