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n. (plural of grown-up English)
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Grown-Ups is a 1980 British BBC television film devised and directed by Mike Leigh. It stars Lesley Manville, Philip Davis, Brenda Blethyn, Janine Duvitski, Lindsay Duncan and Sam Kelly. It was edited by Robin Sales and produced by Louis Marks for the BBC, and originally shown on BBC 2 on 28 November 1980.
Leigh was determined, following the erratic uncontrolled elements he felt had marred his previous television film, Who's Who, to make a precise and utterly controlled film. Quoted in Michael Coveney's 1996 biography he said ; "And that's what we got I think. It was also the first time I worked with far and away the best lighting cameraman I'd had up to that time, Remi Adefarasin." Another key friendship was forged with Simon Channing-Williams who worked as first assistant director on the film.
Having considered Harlow for the film's location, he decided finally to shoot in Canterbury, a choice strengthened when he discovered that Brenda Blethyn, whom he had cast in a role 'that was to be one of his most inspired creations', came from nearby Ramsgate. He also needed two adjacent houses, one semi-detached and privately owned, one a council house. Two such houses were found and most of the film - (though the opening sequence follows a removal van around Canterbury in the shadow of Canterbury Cathedral) - stays in and around that location.
Usage examples of "grown-ups".
Then he realized that the grown-ups on the lawn were talking softly among themselves.
Roanna was only seven, but she knew the intricacies of kinship, having practically absorbed it through her skin during the hours she'd spent listening to the grown-ups talk about family.
He looked at her different than grown-ups and she thought he was not supposed to do that, but she did not want to look anywhere else, because he was different than everyone.
She let it go a minute to see what the grown-ups were going to do now that they knew for sure that Justin and Grant were her invites.
The grown-ups drank wine and uncle Denys even let her have a quarter of a glass.
She worked her puzzle-box and got it open while the grown-ups drank a lot and laughed with each other and while uncle Denys finally got her watch set with the right date.
The grown-ups had drinks and got to talking, and everyone was being nice.
You got into trouble, making up your mind why things were that grown-ups wouldn't tell you.
Sex wasn't fun, she decided, it was a damned complicated mess, it gave you cramps and it tangled things up and made grown-ups not trust each other.
If and when the grown-ups found out and convinced him that he could not do what he did, then perhaps the game would be over.
Anakin could make himself understood when he was talking to the twins, or to the grown-ups, but not even Jaina or Jacen could make much sense of him when he talked to himself.
If they revealed Anakin's abilities, that might protect them for the moment, but the grown-ups would he sure to do something about Anakin, and then where would the twins be?
If the grown-ups wanted to pretend everything was fine, she could do the same thing, even if she did not know what the problem was.
They had built it to get out of doing work they didn't want to do, work that the grown-ups didn't let droids do for the kids.
She liked it when Jacen talked that way, making fun of how seriously the grown-ups seemed to take everything.