Anita and Me
Synopsis
Meena is twelve years old and lives in the village of Tollington 'the jewel of the Black Country' - in 1972. She is the daughter of Indian parents who have come to England to give her a better life. Her idyllic adolescence, surrounded by eccentric relatives and friends, is disrupted by the arrival in Tollington of Anita Rutter and her dysfunctional family. At 14 - blonde, aloof, beautiful, outrageous and sassy - Anita is everything Meena thinks she wants to be. Meena wheedles her way into Anita's life, but the arrival of a baby brother, teenage hormones, impending entrance exams for the posh grammar school and a motorcycling rebel without a future, threaten to turn her salad days sour. ANITE AND ME paints a comic, poignant, compassionate and colourful portrait of village life in the era of flares, power cuts, glam rock, decimalisation and Ted Heath.
Details
- Year
- 2002
- Type of film
- Features
- Format
- 35mm Kodak
- Director
- Metin Huseyin
- Producer
- Meera Syal
- Co-Producer
- Meera Syal
- Editor
- Annie Kocur
- Screenwriter
- Meera Syal, from her novel
- Director of Photography
- Cinders Forshaw
- Sound
- Martin Trevis
- Music
- Muso Music Limited
- Principal Cast
- Chandeep Uppal, Anna Brewster, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Ayesha Dharker, Lynn Redgrave, Mark Williams, Max Beesley, Alex Freeborn, Kathy Burke, Meera Syal, Georgia Patrick, Omid Ojalili, Alina Iqbal, Rajinder Kaur
Genre
Production status
Complete
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Last updated 26th November 2005
