LIFE IS SWEET
Great Britain
1990
102 minutes
A suburban London family struggles to make ends meet but seem to do so with a can-do cheerfulness. Quietly devastating yet very funny and impeccably presented and performed comedy-drama of modern working-class life that gives a good dusting to British kitchen-sink realism.
Film Four International and British Screen present a Thin Man Films production.
Starring Alison Steadman, Jim Broadbent, Timothy Spall; Claire Skinner, Jane Horrocks, David Thewlis, Moya Brady; and Stephen Rea.
Directed and written by Mike Leigh; produced by Simon Channing-Williams; music by Rachel Portman; director of photography (Metrocolor), Dick Pope; production designer, Alison Chitty; costume designer, Lindy Hemming; film editor, Jon Gregory.
Screened: DVD, Lisbon, August 1st 2010.
1990
102 minutes
A suburban London family struggles to make ends meet but seem to do so with a can-do cheerfulness. Quietly devastating yet very funny and impeccably presented and performed comedy-drama of modern working-class life that gives a good dusting to British kitchen-sink realism.
Film Four International and British Screen present a Thin Man Films production.
Starring Alison Steadman, Jim Broadbent, Timothy Spall; Claire Skinner, Jane Horrocks, David Thewlis, Moya Brady; and Stephen Rea.
Directed and written by Mike Leigh; produced by Simon Channing-Williams; music by Rachel Portman; director of photography (Metrocolor), Dick Pope; production designer, Alison Chitty; costume designer, Lindy Hemming; film editor, Jon Gregory.
Screened: DVD, Lisbon, August 1st 2010.
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