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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.
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.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Mike Leigh
- 1991-12
Life Is Sweet. 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...
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- Mike Leigh
- R
- Alison Steadman
Nov 22, 1990 · This invigorating film from Mike Leigh was his first international sensation. 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 ...
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.
Mike Leigh’s 1990 comedy Life Is Sweet, showing at the Trylon microcinema as part of a monthlong retrospective of the director’s early films, presents an intimate portrait of working-class life in Thatcher-era north London.
Life Is Sweet - The Criterion Channel. Directed by Mike Leigh • 1990 • United Kingdom. Starring Claire Skinner, Jane Horrocks, Jim Broadbent. This invigorating film from Mike Leigh was his first international sensation.
