Anita and Me (film) Anita and Me (film) Anita and Me is a British comedy-drama film released in 2002 based on the book of the same name by Meera Syal. It was released during a period of popularity for British Asian films, alongside such as "East Is East" and "Bend It Like Beckham". Meena Kumar, a 12-year-old Sikh girl, lives with her family in the predominantly white, working-class, fictional mining village of Tollington in the Black Country in 1972. Meena meets Anita, a white, 14-year-old girl whom Meena comes to idolise. However, Meena finds it harder and harder to fit in as her Indian
The Great Adventure (1918 film) her performance, called "likable", but the film itself did not. It was said that the plot "stretches the imagination of the spectator." Despite the critical reception, the film was commercially successful. The Great Adventure (1918 film) The Great Adventure, also known as Her Great Adventure and Spring of the Year, is a 1918 silent film directed by Alice Guy-Blaché, and starring Bessie Love. The film is extant at the BFI National Film and Television Archive (London). Shot at Solax Studios in Fort Lee, New Jersey. An amateur performer (Love) has found local success and acclaim, but dreams of stardom on