Life is sweet [videorecording] / Film Four International and British Screen present ; a Thin Man Films production of a Mike Leigh film ; produced by Simon Channing-Williams ; written and directed by Mike Leigh.
Title from container. Alison Steadman, Jim Broadbent, Timothy Spall, Claire Skinner, Jane Horrocks, David Thewlis, Moya Brady, Stephen Rea. Originally released as a motion picture in 1990. Special features: New audio commentary featuring director Mike Leigh.
Summary:
An amusing portrait of a working-class family in a suburb just north of London, an irrepressible mum and dad and their night-and-day twins, a bookish good girl and a sneering lay about. 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. Perched on the line between humor and melancholy.
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