Meantime (1981)
by Mike Leigh
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Actor: Jeff Robert, Marion Bailey, Pam Ferris, Phil Daniels, Tim RothDirector: Mike Leigh
Cinematographer: Roger Pratt
Writer: Mike Leigh
Editor: Lesley Walker
Producer: Graham Benson
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Color, NTSC
Running Time: 102 minutes
Release Date: 1999-01-26
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: Fox Lorber
Studio: Fox Lorber
VHS Movie Reviews of Meantime (1981)
Movie Review: 5 stars for the film, 0 stars for the sound....
Summary: 2 Stars
The soundtrack on this film is truly horrible... HOWEVER, I did find that by adjusting the balance completely to the right, I was able to hear just the dialogue, without the dreadful, invasive sound effects track getting in the way. The DVD is unwatchable unless you do this!
Summary of Meantime (1981)
This early Mike Leigh film was made for British television in 1983 (released theatrically in 1985), and introduced both Gary Oldman and Tim Roth. Set in the Thatcher era, the story--typically for Leigh--is more a matter of dramatic evolution than a conventionally realized script. The action revolves around a middle-class family whose male members are all on the government dole, and whose matriarch (Marion Bailey) is long-suffering in the sight of her two sons, one a half-wit (Roth) and the other a cynical bum (Phil Daniels). Oldman plays the latter's skinhead pal, mostly a goof with no future, and Alfred Molina portrays a relative of the brothers strongly resistant to nudging their lives in a more constructive direction. The story, such as it is, is actually a series of discrete, deceptively unambitious, and highly entertaining scenes that could just as easily stand on their own as belong to some greater whole. Leigh, not quite fully baked as a filmmaker in the early 1980s, occasionally engages a rather obvious wit, such as shooting a long take in a laundry room from an angle that favors the sight of a washing machine and ignores the characters from the waist up. The remarkable actors, however, are as deeply immersed in their roles as in any of Leigh's work, and the film is ultimately as moving and funny as one expects from this unique director. --Tom KeoghArt House & International VHS Video
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