Life Is Sweet

Life Is Sweet

🎞️ Movie 103 min GB
โ˜… 7.4 /10 1990

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.

Direction
Screenplay

Cast

Alison Steadman
Alison Steadman
Wendy
Jim Broadbent
Jim Broadbent
Andy
Claire Skinner
Claire Skinner
Natalie
Jane Horrocks
Jane Horrocks
Nicola
Stephen Rea
Stephen Rea
Patsy
Timothy Spall
Timothy Spall
Aubrey
David Thewlis
David Thewlis
Nicola's Lover
Moya Brady
Moya Brady
Paula
David Neilson
David Neilson
Steve
Harriet Thorpe
Harriet Thorpe
Customer
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Rachel Portman
Composer
Dick Pope
Dick Pope
Cinematographer

๐ŸŽฌ Videos

Film4 Trailer
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Trailer
Film4 Trailer
Three Reasons: Life Is Sweet
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Featurette
Three Reasons: Life Is Sweet
Life Is Sweet - Mike Leigh Commentary
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Featurette
Life Is Sweet - Mike Leigh Commentary