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Anita and Me
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.
- Original title
- Anita and Me
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US,GB
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CinemaSerf
Sep 3, 2023 · via TMDB
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 growing up against a background of boredom and innate racial hostility. When the "Rutter" family move in next door, she is impressed by "Anita" (Anna Brewster) despite her being a bit rough around the edges and we head off on a journey of sweet shops, sex and self-discovery. It has a good ensemble cast including Kathy Bates and Sanjeev Bhaskar to help keep it ticking over, but it's just too safe - not that it needs violence or bad language; but it's just a little too worthy a film to stay in the memory after it's done. It wouldn't be fair to describe it as boring; but it's not far off.
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Chandeep Uppal
Meena Kumar
Max Beesley
Hairy Neddy
Anna Brewster
Anita Rutter
Sanjeev Bhaskar
Mr. Kumar
Kathy Burke
Mrs. Rutter
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Yeti
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Hairstylist
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Makeup Artist
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Casting
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Executive Producer
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Producer
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Sound Re-Recording Mixer
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