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Once Upon a Time in the Midlands

Once Upon a Time in the Midlands
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UK Theatrical release poster
Directed by Shane Meadows
Produced by Andrea Calderwood
Written by Paul Fraser
Shane Meadows
Starring Robert Carlyle
Rhys Ifans
Kathy Burke
Ricky Tomlinson
Shirley Henderson
Music by John Lunn
Cinematography Brian Tufano
Edited by Peter Beston
Trevor Waite
Distributed by Film Four
Release date
  • 6 September 2002 (2002-09-06)
Running time
104 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language English

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.

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.

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).


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