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Anita and Me

5.9 / 10

93 minutes

2002-11-22

Punjabi

GB

Actors :

Chandeep Uppal, Max Beesley, Anna Brewster, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Kathy Burke, Kabir Bedi, Ayesha Dharker, Lynn Redgrave, Alex Freeborn, Mark Williams, Lucy Pargeter, Meera Syal, Kathy Burke, Zohra Sehgal, Christine Tremarco

Description

Meena, a 12-year-old living in a mining village in the English Midlands in 1972, is the daughter of Indian parents who've come to England to give her a better life. This idyllic existence is upset by the arrival in the village of Anita Rutter and her dysfunctional family.

Reviews

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

9/3/2023, 6:35:44 AM

This is one of these gentle, tender, coming-of-age movies that raises the odd smile but is really pretty unremarkable. I can't speculate as to the degree in which it is semi-autobiographical of writer Meera Syal's own upbringing; but it centres around the story of a young British Asian girl "Meena" (Chandeep Uppal) whose family live in a town in the Midlands of England where she has to do her own ...