- Once Upon a Time in the Midlands
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Once Upon a Time in the Midlands 
UK Theatrical release posterDirected by Shane Meadows Produced by Andrea Calderwood Written by Paul Fraser,
Shane MeadowsStarring Robert Carlyle
Rhys Ifans
Kathy Burke
Ricky Tomlinson
Shirley HendersonMusic by John Lunn Cinematography Brian Tufano Editing by Peter Beston,
Trevor WaiteDistributed by Film Four Release date(s) 
2002Running time 104 min Country United Kingdom Language English Once Upon a Time in the Midlands is a 2002 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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Plot
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. 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. Though in the end Shirley refuses to go with Jimmy & professes her love for Dek after her daughter Marlene refuses to have anything to do with Jimmy and is only ready to accept Dek as the father figure.
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
Awards
- Nominated: Best Feature (Grand Prix Asturias) – Shane Meadows
External links
- Once Upon a Time in the Midlands Once Upon a Time in the Midlands
- Once Upon a Time in the Midlands at the Internet Movie Database
- Once Upon a Time in the Midlands at Sony Pictures
- Once Upon a Time in the Midlands. Guardian film of the week.
Films directed by Shane Meadows 1990s Small Time (1996) · Twenty Four Seven (1997) · A Room for Romeo Brass (1999)2000s Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (2002) · Dead Man's Shoes (2004) · This Is England (2006) · Somers Town (2008) · Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee (2009)Short Films Where's the Money, Ronnie? (1996) · Three Tears for Jimmy Prophet (1997) · Northern Soul (2004) · The Stairwell (2005)
Categories:- British films
- English-language films
- 2002 films
- Films directed by Shane Meadows
- Films about dysfunctional families
- Film4 Productions films
- 2000s British film stubs
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