Anita and Me
ComedyDramaFamily
5.9/10
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|93 min
Release Date: 2002-11-22
Overview - 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.
Production Companies
Starfield ProductionsEM MediaEmmiPortman FilmBBC
User Reviews
CinemaSerf
6/10
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 ...
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