Once Upon a Time in the Midlands
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| Once Upon a Time in the Midlands | |
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| Directed by | Shane Meadows |
| Produced by | Andrea Calderwood |
| Written by | Paul Fraser, Shane Meadows |
| Starring | Robert Carlyle, Rhys Ifans, Kathy Burke, Ricky Tomlinson |
| Music by | John Lunn |
| Cinematography | Brian Tufano |
| Editing by | Peter Beston, Trevor Waite |
| Release date(s) |  2002 |
| Running time | 104 min |
| Country | UK |
| Language | English |
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Once Upon a Time in the Midlands is a 2002 film directed and co-written by Shane Meadows and set in an anonymous town in the Midlands. It was filmed on location in Nottingham.
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[edit] Plot
Dek (Rhys Ifans) proposes to his girlfriend Shirley (Shirley Henderson) on TV. When Jimmy (Robert Carlyle), "the great love of her life" and father of her daughter, sees this, he returns in an attempt to win back her heart. However after deserting his friends in Scotland during an unsuccessful robbery of some clowns, his friends turn against him and come to the Midlands to try to track him down.
[edit] Cast
- Robert Carlyle - Jimmy
- Vanessa Feltz - Herself
- Ricky Tomlinson - Charlie
- Kathy Burke - Carol
- Vicki Patterson - Audience Guest
- Shirley Henderson - Shirley
- Finn Atkins - Marlene
- Kelly Thresher - Donna
- Rhys Ifans - Dek
- Andrew Shim - Donut
- Ryan Bruce - Emerson
- Eliot Otis Brown Walters - Lake
- Anthony Strachan - Jumbo (as Antony Strachan)
- David McKay - Dougy (as David Mckay)
- James Cosmo - Billy
[edit] Awards
- Nominated: Best Feature (Grand Prix Asturias) – Shane Meadows
[edit] External links
- Once Upon a Time in the Midlands at the Internet Movie Database
- Once Upon a Time in the Midlands at Sony Pictures
- Once Upon a Time in the Midlands. Guardian film of the week.
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