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The working-class malaise of suburban London is captured in this comedic drama, which focuses on twin sisters Natalie (Claire Skinner) and Nicola (Jane Horrocks) and their parents: easygoing Andy...
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Plot. Life Is Sweet. Summaries. A shop assistant, her cook husband, and their twin daughters go about their lives in a working-class London suburb. Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola.
Melancholy and funny by turns, it is an intimate portrait of a working-class family in a suburb just north of London—an irrepressible mum and dad (Alison Steadman and Jim Broadbent) and their night-and-day twins, a bookish good girl and a troubled, ill-tempered layabout (Claire Skinner and Jane Horrocks).
Melancholy and funny by turns, it is an intimate portrait of a working-class family in a suburb just north of London—an irrepressible mum and dad (Alison Steadman and Jim Broadbent) and their night-and-day twins, a bookish good girl and a troubled, ill-tempered layabout (Claire Skinner and Jane Horrocks).
Oct 25, 1991 · Life Is Sweet. Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 18 Critic Reviews. 88. User Score Generally Favorable Based on 12 User Ratings. 7.0. My Score. Hover and click to give a rating. Add My Review. Where to Watch. Criterion Channel (Subscription required) View All. Alison Steadman. Wendy. Jim Broadbent. Andy. Claire Skinner. Natalie. Jane Horrocks.
Oct 24, 1991 · Synopsis by Paul Brenner. Mike Leigh's situation comedy about a lower middle-class family in the London suburbs is a slice-of-life chronicle that subtly reveals the pain and rage underneath the surface of day-to-day conventions.
Directed by. Mike Leigh. Produced by. Simon Channing-Williams. Written by. Mike Leigh. Featuring. Alison Steadman, Jim Broadbent, Timothy Spall. Running time. 103 minutes. The urge to remain individual within a family, and the relationship between the personal and the entrepreneurial, are among the themes that inform Mike Leigh’s touching comedy.
