Life Is Sweet /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors:	Film Four International, British Screen, Thin Man Films (Firm)
Other Authors:	Steadman, Alison, 1946- (Actor), Skinner, Claire (Actor), Thewlis, David, 1963- (Actor), Horrocks, Jane, 1964- (Actor), Broadbent, Jim (Actor), Rea, Stephen (Actor), Spall, Timothy, 1957- (Actor)
Format:	Video
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English dialogue; closed captioned.
Published:	[San Francisco, California, USA] : The Criterion Collection, 1990. Kanopy Streaming, 2023.
Subjects:	Families > Drama. Twins > Drama. Food trucks > Drama. Suburbs > England > Drama. Comedy films. Fiction films. Feature films. Internet videos.
Online Access:	Connect to this streaming video (Kanopy)

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Summary:	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-tempered layabout (Claire Skinner and Jane Horrocks). Leigh and his typically brilliant cast create, with extraordinary sensitivity and craft, a vivid, lived-in story of ordinary existence, in which even modest dreams-such as the father's desire to open a food truck-carry enormous weight.
Item Description:	Title from title frames. Originally produced by The Criterion Collection in 1990.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (1 video file (104 min.)) : sound
Production Credits:	Costume designer, Lindy Hemming ; production designer, Alison Chitty ; music by Rachel Portman ; director of photography, Dick Pope ; edited by Jon Gregory.