Anita & Me (Original title)Anita and Me (Working title)
Dates: 2002 (Copyright), 22 November 2002 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirector: Metin Hüseyin
Synopsis: Meena is twelve years old and lives in the village of Tollington "the jewel of the Black Country" - in 1972. She is the daughter of Indian parents who have come to England to give her a better life. Her idyllic adolescence, surrounded by eccentric relatives and friends, is disrupted by the arrival in Tollington of Anita Rutter and her dysfunctional family. At 14 - blonde, aloof, beautiful, outrageous and sassy - Anita is everything Meena thinks she wants to be. Meena wheedles her way into Anita's life, but the arrival of a baby brother, teenage hormones, impending entrance exams for the posh grammar school and a motorcycling rebel without a future, threaten to turn her salad days sour.
Genre: Drama
Subjects: Indian community, 1970s, Black Country, Teenagers
Releases
Date: 22 November 2002Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - DeLuxe - Sound - Dolby DigitalRuntime: 92 mins 22 secs - Length: 8312 FeetSubtitles: EnglishDistributor: Icon Film Distribution
Date: March 2003Country: United KingdomRelease type: Home ViewingFormat: VHS Videocassette - Colour - SoundRuntime: 88 mins 38 secs - Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Warner Home Video
Dates: 2002 (Copyright), 22 November 2002 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirector: Metin Hüseyin
Synopsis: Meena is twelve years old and lives in the village of Tollington "the jewel of the Black Country" - in 1972. She is the daughter of Indian parents who have come to England to give her a better life. Her idyllic adolescence, surrounded by eccentric relatives and friends, is disrupted by the arrival in Tollington of Anita Rutter and her dysfunctional family. At 14 - blonde, aloof, beautiful, outrageous and sassy - Anita is everything Meena thinks she wants to be. Meena wheedles her way into Anita's life, but the arrival of a baby brother, teenage hormones, impending entrance exams for the posh grammar school and a motorcycling rebel without a future, threaten to turn her salad days sour.
Genre: Drama
Subjects: Indian community, 1970s, Black Country, Teenagers
Releases
Date: 22 November 2002Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - DeLuxe - Sound - Dolby DigitalRuntime: 92 mins 22 secs - Length: 8312 FeetSubtitles: EnglishDistributor: Icon Film Distribution
Date: March 2003Country: United KingdomRelease type: Home ViewingFormat: VHS Videocassette - Colour - SoundRuntime: 88 mins 38 secs - Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Warner Home Video
Credits
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In association with: Take 3 TV Partnership, Production Company: Starfield Productions, Presented by: Portman Productions, Film Council, Presented by/Developed by: BBC Films, Presented in association with: East Midlands Media Intitiative, Icon Film Distribution, In association with: Chest Wig & Flares Productions, Developed by: FilmFour, Part-funded by: European Regional Development Fund, Made with the support of: UK Film Council New Cinema Fund, [Production Company]: Baker Street Media, Executive Producer: Paul Trijbits, Executive Producer: David M. Thompson, Executive Producer: Peter Carlton, Executive Producer: Bill Allan, Executive Producer: Tristan Whalley, Producer: Paul Raphael, Co-producer: Meera Syal, Line Producer: Sheila Fraser Milne, Associate Producer: Joe Oppenheimer, Production Executive (BBC Films): Michael Wood, Production Executive (Film Council NCFd): Susie Liggat, Senior Executive (Film Council Nw Cn Fd): Himesh Kar, Unit Manager: Richard May, Production Co-ordinator: Jacqueline Thorogood, Production Co-ordinator (Tank Unit): Fleur Fontaine, Location Manager: Benjamin Greenacre, Post-production (Supervisor): Alistair Hopkins, Production Assistant: Emily Hunt, Assistant Director (1st): Max Keene, Assistant Director (2nd): Matt Baker, Assistant Director (3rd): Joe Geary, Assistant Director (Crowd): Andrea Slater, Assistant Director (Tank Unit 1st): Davina Nicholson, Script Supervisor: Zoë Morgan, Casting (Director): Jina Jay, Casting (Associate): Shaheen Baig, Casting (Children's): Pippa Hall, Casting (ADR Voice): Brendan Donnison, Vanessa Baker, Screenplay: Meera Syal, Based on the novel by: Meera Syal, Director of Photography: Cinders Forshaw, Steadicam Operator: Paul Edwards, Steadicam Operator: Alf Tramontin, Focus Puller: Mark Milsome, Clapper: Harry Bowers, Stills Photography: Giles Keyte, Digital Visual Effects: Double Negative, DN (Visual Effects Supervisor): Charlie Noble, DN (Visual Effects Producer): Antony Bluff, Fay McConkey, DN (Compositing): Jody Johnson, John Moffatt, DN (CG Artist): Fredrik Sundqvist, DN (Rotoscoping): Ciaran Crowley, Matthew Shaw, Special Effects Supervisor: Darren May, Special Effects Supervisor (Tank Unit): Mark Haddenham, Film Editor: Annie Kocur, Assistant Editor: Kate Mackenzie, Assistant Editor: Kate Higham, Production Designer: Caroline Hanania, Art Director: Andrew Munro, Set Decorator: Trisha Edwards, Illustrator: Jim Stanes, Costume Designer: Susannah Buxton, Make-up/Hair Designer: Graham Johnston, Make-up Artist: Daniel Phillips, Make-up Artist: Sîan Turner, Nora Robertson, End Credits Designed by: Richard Morrison, Fig Productions, Opticals/Titles Supplied by: General Screen Enterprises, Original Music Composed by: Nitin Sawhney, Violin: Chandru & Bollywood Strings, Music Supervisor: Maggie Bazin, Music Engineer: David Mcewan, Sound Mixer: Martin Trevis, Sound Mixer (Tank Unit): John Kasali, Sound Maintenance: Kate Morath, Boom Swinger: Kate Morath, Re-recording Mixer: Mike Prestwood-smith, Supervising Sound Editor: Mike Wood, Supervising Sound Editor: Catherine Hodgson, Dialogue Editor: Stewart Henderson, ADR Recordist: Peter Gleaves, ADR Recordist: Robert Farr, ADR Editor: Stewart Henderson, Foley Artist: Felicity Cottrell, Foley Artist: Ruth Sullivan, Foley Editor: Harry Barnes, Stunt Co-ordinator: Wayne Michaels, Stunt Performer: Ray De-Haan, Stunt Performer: Tracey Eddon, Stunt Performer: Jamie Edgell, Stunt Performer: Ruth Jenkins, Stunt Performer: Julian Spencer, Tom Struthers, Dog Handler: Sue Clark, Horse handler: Steve Dent, Horse Wrangler: Peter White
Cast
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Kabir Bedi (Yeti), Max Beesley (Hairy Neddy), Sanjeev Bhaskar (Papa), Anna Brewster (Anita Rutter), Kathy Burke (Deidre Rutter), Ayesha Dharker (Mama), Omid Djalili (Uncle Amman), Alex Freeborn (Sam Lowbridge), Lynn Redgrave (Mrs Ormerod), Zohra Segal (Nanima), Meera Syal (Auntie Shaila), Christine Tremarco (Sandy), Chandeep Uppal (Meena), Mark Williams (Uncle Alan), Lucy Pargeter (Brenda), Claire Downes (teacher), Emily Churchill (Karen), Georgia Patrick (Tracey Rutter), Anne-Marie Francis (Mrs Lowbridge), Iqbal Ahmed (Kaka), Alina Iqbal (Pinky), Rajinder Kaur (baby), Lyndsey Haluszczak (Sherrie), Jo Taylor (Sally), Meegan Jones (teenage girl), Jonathan Carter (Karl), Timothy March (Kevin), Perry Fitzpatrick (Ray), Tim Murphy (skinny guy), Ben Marshall (acne guy), Harvey Virdi (auntie), Heather Phoenix (nurse), Ajay Chhabra (Mr Bhatra), Andrew Haynes (large man in car), Pushpinda Chani (bus conductor), Margaret Jackman (old lady in car), Robbie Woodward (Sam's friend), Christopher Obi (minister)