Life Is Sweet R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 43 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 28, 2013
- Originally Released: 1990
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Alison Steadman & Jim Broadbent | |
Performer: | Jane Horrocks, Claire Skinner, Timothy Spall, David Thewlis, Stephen Rea & Moya Brady | |
Directed by | Mike Leigh | |
Edited by | Jon Gregory | |
Screenwriting by | Mike Leigh | |
Composition by | Rachel Portman | |
Produced by | Simon Channing Williams | |
Director of Photography: | Dick Pope |
Entertainment Reviews:
...[An] exceptionally acted comic framework....Leigh again proves himself a world-class filmmaker...
Rolling Stone
Rating: 4/4 --
Most movies begin by knowing everything about their characters. Life is Sweet seems to make discoveries as it goes along; it really feels as if the story is as surprising to the characters as it is to us.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Leigh's film celebrates the resiliency of commonplace people, which is all very nice though quite at odds with the portrait of a faltering England.
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Hartford Courant
...This is one of Mike Leigh's strongest....It's a perfect slice-of-life British drama...
Total Film
[T]here’s a sense in which Leigh is playing rope-a-dope with the kitchen-sink genre, lulling the audience with familiar trappings while he lines up the next big punch. -- Grade: B+
A.V. Club
Rating: 3/5 --
By allowing the performances to be so demonstrative, it betrays Leigh's central desire to hammer home the sole conceit or piece of subtext he wants to bring to Life if Sweet.
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Patrick Nabarro
Explores the personal and economic lives of a lower middle-class English family in hard times.
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Product Description:
Director Mike Leigh escapes the confines of direct-to-television films with this incredibly bittersweet slice-of-life comedy about a blue-collar family living in modern-day England. Wendy (Alison Steadman) and Andy (Jim Broadbent) are a good-natured couple with two daughters, Nicola (Jane Horrocks) and Natalie (Claire Skinner). As different as two sisters could possibly be, Natalie is jovial and optimistic, while Nicola is a discontented cynic with contempt for everything she encounters. When Andy breaks his foot and strikes upon the idea to buy a hot dog van, Wendy is reminded of what she loves--and loathes--about her husband. Gradually, Nicola is revealed to have a potentially dangerous eating disorder, and by the time tensions between the sisters erupt, Wendy must gather all her strength to keep the family together.
With LIFE IS SWEET, Leigh has pulled off a remarkable feat: He has made a film that is at once a raucous comedy, a poignant drama, and a heartfelt tearjerker, setting the standard for all slice-of-life films that follow. In addition to the spot-on performances of Steadman, Broadbent, Horrocks, and Skinner, Leigh regulars David Thewlis and Timothy Spall appear to add even greater depth--and comic relief--to the proceedings.
With LIFE IS SWEET, Leigh has pulled off a remarkable feat: He has made a film that is at once a raucous comedy, a poignant drama, and a heartfelt tearjerker, setting the standard for all slice-of-life films that follow. In addition to the spot-on performances of Steadman, Broadbent, Horrocks, and Skinner, Leigh regulars David Thewlis and Timothy Spall appear to add even greater depth--and comic relief--to the proceedings.
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- Sales Rank: 59,540
- UPC: 715515105514
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