{"product_id":"715515202015","title":"Meantime (DVD)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA slow-burning depiction of economic degradation in Thatcher’s England, Mike Leigh’s \"Meantime\" is the culmination of the writer-director’s pioneering work in television. Unemployment is rampant in London’s working-class East End, where a middle-aged couple and their two sons languish in a claustrophobic public-housing flat. As the brothers (Phil Daniels and Tim Roth) grow increasingly disaffected, Leigh punctuates the grinding boredom of their daily existence with tense encounters, including with a priggish aunt (Marion Bailey) who has managed to become middle-class and a blithering skinhead on the verge of psychosis (a scene-stealing Gary Oldman, in his first major role). Informed by Leigh’s now trademark improvisational process and propelled by the lurching rhythms of its Beckett-like dialogue, \"Meantime\" is an unrelenting, often blisteringly funny look at life on the dole.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cinema 1 Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44872201437263,"sku":"715515202015","price":32.97,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0680\/2787\/5407\/files\/715515202015_871c19a1-5641-4df7-889d-ad43bb091571.jpg?v=1773778010","url":"https:\/\/cinema1.ca\/products\/715515202015","provider":"Cinema 1 Inc.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}