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Meantime

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Meantime trailer (Gary Oldman, Tim Roth, Alfred Molina)

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Meantime (1983) - Lift Scene

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Meantime (1983) - Economics & Anthills

Meantime is a 1983 made for television comedy drama film directed by Mike Leigh, produced by Central Television for Channel 4. It was shown in 1983 at the London Film Festival and on Channel 4 and at the 1984 Berlin International Film Festival. According to the critic Michael Coveney: "The sapping, debilitating and demeaning state of unemployment, the futile sense of waste, has not been more poignantly, or poetically, expressed in any other film of the period."