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Life Is Sweet is a 1990 British comedy-drama film directed by Mike Leigh, starring Alison Steadman, Jim Broadbent, Claire Skinner, Jane Horrocks and Timothy Spall. Leigh's third cinematic film, it was his most commercially successful title at the time of release.
- £1 million
- Rachel Portman
- 22 November 1990
- Simon Channing Williams
Life Is Sweet: Directed by Mike Leigh. With Alison Steadman, Jim Broadbent, Claire Skinner, Jane Horrocks. A shop assistant, her cook husband, and their twin daughters go about their lives in a working-class London suburb.
- (11K)
- Comedy, Drama
- Mike Leigh
- 1991-12
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...
- (184)
- Mike Leigh
- R
- Alison Steadman
Dec 24, 1991 · Life Is Sweet is a film by Mike Leigh that explores the humor and pain of a London family through improvisation. Roger Ebert praises its original dialogue, subtle humor and emotional impact, calling it one of the best films of the year.
Synopsis. Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, Andy is a cook who forever puts off home remodeling projects, Natalie is a plumber and Nicola is jobless. This film is about how they interact and play out family, conflict and love.
- (71)
- Wendy; Andy; Aubrey
- R
- 1990
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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. Wendy clerks in a shop, leads aerobics at a primary school, jokes like a vaudevillian, agrees to waitress at a friend's new ...
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).
