{"product_id":"meantime-blu-ray","title":"Meantime Blu-Ray","description":"\u003cp\u003eA slow-burning depiction of economic degradation in Thatcher’s England, Mike Leigh’s \u003cem\u003eMeantime\u003c\/em\u003e 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, \u003cem\u003eMeantime\u003c\/em\u003e is an unrelenting, often blisteringly funny look at life on the dole.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cinema Cellar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41779923255381,"sku":"CC2791BD","price":32.39,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3032\/6613\/files\/890_bd-1_bxnbphkikeh2cfgw.jpg?v=1767992514","url":"https:\/\/cinemacellar.com\/products\/meantime-blu-ray","provider":"Cinema Cellar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}