Meantime is a
1983 film directed by
Mike Leigh, produced by
Central Television for
Channel 4. It was shown at the
London Film Festival in 1983 and on Channel 4 a few weeks later, on 1 December. 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."