3rd November 1991

Life is Sweet

Director: Mike Leigh

UK, 1990

Run Time: 103 minutes, Certificate: ,
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Language: English

Synopsis:

Wendy [Alison Steadman] somehow manages to keep smiling whilst her husband [Jim Broadbent] and their adolescent twin daughters shift from one crisis to another, aided by their useless neighbour [Timothy Spa11]. Mike Leigh's achingly funny story of a family's survival amid the pressures of life in a faceless 1950's North London suburb dovetails perfectly with Terence Davies' DISTANT VOICES, STILL LIVES

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