Meantime

Synopsis

A working-class family in London's East End is struggling to stay afloat during the recession under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's premiership. Only the mother Mavis is working; father Frank and the couple's two sons Colin, a timid, chronically shy individual and Mark, an outspoken, headstrong young man, are on the dole. This situation is contrasted by the presence of Mavis's sister Barbara, and her husband John, whose financial and social loftiness appears to be a comfortable facade over the unspoken soreness of a lackluster marriage.

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When & where

Streaming on

• Criterion Channel↗

Top of the call sheet

• 
  Phil Daniels
  as Mark
• 
  Tim Roth
  as Colin
• J
  Jeffrey Robert
  as Frank
• 
  Pam Ferris
  as Mavis
• 
  Gary Oldman
  as Coxy
• 
  Marion Bailey
  as Barbara

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