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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.
Feb 19, 2014 · Wendy and Andy (Alison Steadman and Jim Broadbent) and their twin daughters (Jane Horrocks and Claire Skinner) live in North London. One daughter is a spitting bulimic, while the other is set to ...
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.
Dec 24, 1991 · Life Is Sweet. Roger Ebert December 24, 1991. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. Most movies begin by knowing everything about their characters. "Life is Sweet" seems to make discoveries as it goes along; it really feels as if the story is as surprising to the characters as it is to us.
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.
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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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.
