Meantime
(DVD) 

Originally released as a motion picture in 1984.

Special features: New conversation between Leigh and musician Jarvis Cocker; New conversation between actor Marion Bailey and critic Amy Raphael; Interview from 2007 with actor Tim Roth; Plus: an essay by film scholar Sean O'Sullivan.

Costume designer, Lindy Hemming; music composed by Andrew Dickson; art director, Diana Charnley; film editor, Lesley Walker; director of photography, Roger Pratt.

Marion Bailey, Phil Daniels, Tim Roth, Pam Ferris, Jeff Robert, Alfred Molina, Gary Oldman, Tilly Vosburgh, Paul Daly.

A incisive portrait of the tensions that exist within a working class family.

A slow-burning depiction of economic degradation in Thatcher's England. In this film, 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, the grinding boredom of their daily existence is punctuated with tense encounters, including one 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).

DVD format, region 1, NTSC, widescreen (1.66:1), mono, Dolby Digital 1.0.

In English, with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).