Meantime (1983)

Directors

Mike Leigh

Cast

Marion Bailey, Phil Daniels, Tim Roth, Pam Ferris, Jeffrey Robert, Alfred Molina, Gary Oldman

The story

The film unfolds in brief episodes, detailing the travails of the working-class Pollock family, who live in a shabby flat in a tower block in London's East End. They are struggling to stay afloat during the recession under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's premiership. Only the nagging, put-upon mother Mavis is working; the bitter, feckless father Frank and the couple's two sons Colin, an extremely shy young man, and Mark, his outspoken, headstrong older brother, are on the dole.

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