

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.
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- Language
- Punjabi
- based on novel or book
- england
- culture clash
- 1970s
- growing up
- working class
- awakening
- midlands
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United KingdomGB
- Theatrical12A22 Nov 2002
AustraliaAU
- Theatrical1 May 2003
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Anita and Me was released on 22 November 2002.
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CinemaSerf
9/3/2023
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…
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