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Once Upon a Time in the Midlands is a 2002 British romantic comedy film written and directed by Shane Meadows, starring Robert Carlyle, Rhys Ifans, Kathy Burke, Ricky Tomlinson and Shirley Henderson. It is set in Nottingham in the northeast Midlands of England.

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Plot

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Set in Nottinghamshire, 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 Marlene (Finn Atkins), 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. In the end, Shirley refuses to go with Jimmy and professes her love for Dek; likewise, Marlene refuses to have anything to do with Jimmy, and accepts Dek as her father figure.

Cast

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Robert Carlyle – Jimmy, Carol's foster brother, Shirley's ex-husband and Marlene's father

Vanessa Feltz – Herself

Ricky Tomlinson – Charlie, Carol's estranged husband

Kathy Burke – Carol, Jimmy's foster sister

Vicki Patterson – Audience Guest

Shirley Henderson – Shirley, Jimmy's ex-wife and Marlene's mother

Finn Atkins – Marlene, Jimmy and Shirley's daughter

Kelly Thresher – Donna, Carol's daughter

Rhys Ifans – Dek, Shirley's boyfriend

Andrew Shim – Donut, Donna's boyfriend

Ryan Bruce – Emerson, Carol and Charlie's son and Lake and Donna's brother

Eliot Otis Brown Walters – Lake, Carol and Charlie's son and Emerson and Donna's brother

Anthony Strachan – Jumbo (as Antony Strachan)

David McKay – Dougy (as David Mckay)

James Cosmo – Billy

Production

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This is the third time that Carlyle has worked with Henderson (first in Hamish Macbeth and the second in Trainspotting). The second time he has worked with Ifans (the first in The 51st State) and the fourth time he has worked with Tomlinson (first in Riff-Raff, second in Cracker and third in The 51st State).