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 an anonymous town in the Midlands. It was filmed on location in Nottingham, England. Dek proposes to his girlfriend Shirley on TV. When Jimmy , "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 and 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.
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| Release date: | 2002 |
| Directed by: | Shane Meadows |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 100 Minutes |
| Producer: | Andrea Calderwood |
| Editor: | Peter Beston, Trevor Waite |
| Music by: | John Lunn |
| Cinematography: | Brian Tufano |
| Screenplay by: | Shane Meadows, Paul Fraser |
| Genre: | Comedy, Action |