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Anita and Me

6.0(25)20021h 33m2

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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Status
Released
Budget
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Box office
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Language
Punjabi
  • based on novel or book
  • england
  • culture clash
  • 1970s
  • growing up
  • working class
  • awakening
  • midlands

Top billed cast

Behind the camera

Writers

Meera Syal

Produced in

United Kingdom

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Release dates

  • 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

    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 growing up against a…

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