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 | 100 min |
| Country | UK |
| Language | English |
| IMDb profile | |
Once Upon a Time in the Midlands is a 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
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
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.
[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] Facts and Trivia
- The Film Premiered in Nottingham's Showcase Cinemas.
- This was the second time Rhys Ifans and Kathy Burke have been in the same film. The first time being in Kevin and Perry Go Large.
- Robert Carlyle, Rhys Ifans and Ricky Tomlinson were all in The 51st State together.
- Robert Carlyle and Rhys Ifans have both appeared in music videos by Oasis. Carlyle appeared in Little By Little and Ifans in The Importance Of Being Idle.
- The scene where Dec, Marlene, Donna and Donut are driving about after getting their car back after being fixed, they drive through what appears to be the Nottingham Arboretum, although you're not allowed to drive through there.
