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Life Is Sweet(Movie, 1990)

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| 1h 43min | Genres: Comedy, Drama

Rating: 3.5/5 (with 67 votes)

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. A tragi-comic story, it follows the fortunes of a working-class North London family over a few weeks one summer. ()

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About Life Is Sweet

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 restaurant and dotes on Andy, a cook who forever puts off home remodeling projects, and with a drunken friend, buys a broken down lunch wagon. Natalie, with short neat hair and a snappy, droll manner, is a plumber; she has a holiday planned in America, but little else. Last is Nicola, odd man out: a snarl, big glasses, cigarette, mussed hair, jittery fingers, bulimic, jobless, and unhappy. How they interact and play out family conflict and love is the film's subject.

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Trailer for Life Is Sweet + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

Life is Sweet (1991) | Film4 Trailer(Trailer, 2:33)

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Life is Sweet (1991) | Film4 Trailer (Trailer) | Three Reasons (Trailer) | Mike Leigh Commentary (Featurette)

Additional Information

Production country: United Kingdom (UK)

Plays in: London

Made by: Thin Man Films, Film Four International

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN)

Translated into 15 languages: Bulgarian (BG), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Turkish (TR), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 10/24/1991 (World premiere: 11/15/1990)

Cast: Alison Steadman, Jim Broadbent, Claire Skinner, Jane Horrocks, Timothy Spall, Stephen Rea, David Thewlis

Director: Mike Leigh

Producer: Simon Channing-Williams

Screenwriter: Mike Leigh

Film Editor: Jon Gregory

Director of Photography: Dick Pope

Composer: Rachel Portman

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Das süße Leben"

"인생은 향기로워"

Keywords: twins, rebellious daughter, eccentric, eating disorder, bulimia, class differences, working class, food

Revenue: 1,500,000 USD

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