Meantime

"Rich in very British humour...every member of the cast is excellent." Variety "Perfect study-work by Leigh's actors." Julian Barnes, The Observer Oscar-nominated writer-director Mike Leigh(Secrets and Lies, Abigail's Party) assembled the cream of emerging British acting talent for Meantime - a typically sharp and quirky portrait of family relationships. MEANTIME centres on an East End family, the Pollacks -Mavis, Frank and their sons Mark and Colin - and their experience of unemployment, poverty and life in the early 1980's Britain. When Colin comes under the influence of skinhead Coxy - and when Mavis's better off sister Barbara offers Colin work, family tensions erupt into conflict. Mike Leigh's first independent film for five years has a superb cast of rising stars, including GARY OLDMAN, ALFRED MOLINA, TIM ROTH and PHIL DANIELS. First shown on television, it is a memorable and closely observed account of life in Thatcher's Britain. � Central Independent Television Plc.