Once Upon a Time in the Midlands
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51% Country United Kingdom | 6.1/10 IMDb 56% Metacritic Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 6 September 2002 (2002-09-06) Initial release September 6, 2002 (United Kingdom) Initial DVD release September 12, 2003 (Finland) Cast (Jimmy), (Dek), (Shirley), (Carol), (Charlie), Similar movies Angel , Valley Girl , The Great Beauty , Interstellar , Brief Crossing , Lost and Delirious |
Once upon a time in the midlands rare early rehearsal footage
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.
Contents
- Once upon a time in the midlands rare early rehearsal footage
- Once upon a time in the midlands 2002 trailer film4
- Plot
- Cast
- Production
- Awards
- References

Once upon a time in the midlands 2002 trailer film4
Plot

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

Production

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).
Awards



References
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