Life Is Sweet (AUS)

Life Is Sweet (AUS) (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
98 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1991 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Mike Leigh

Written By:
Mike Leigh

Actors:
Alison Steadman ..... Wendy
Jim Broadbent ..... Andy
Claire Skinner ..... Natalie
Jane Horrocks ..... Nicola
Stephen Rea ..... Patsy
Timothy Spall ..... Aubrey, Regret Rien Owner
David Thewlis ..... Nicola's Lover
Moya Brady ..... Paula, Aubrey's Cook
David Neilson ..... Steve the Plumber
Harriet Thorpe ..... Bunnikins' Customer
Paul Trussel ..... Chef where Andy Works
Jack Thorpe-Baker ..... Nigel

Synopsis:

Mike Leigh's situation comedy about a lower middle-class family in the London suburbs is a slice-of-life chronicle that subtly reveals the pain and rage underneath the surface of day-to-day conventions. The youngish parents, Wendy (Alison Steadman) and Andy (Jim Broadbent) live with their 20-something twin daughters, Nicola (Jane Horrocks) and Natalie (Claire Skinner). Natalie, a plumber's assistant, is clean-cut and forever looks on the bright side of life. Nicola, who is unemployed, has nothing but contempt for conventionality. As the daughters deal with the obsessively sunny Wendy and the lackadaisical Andy, and confront a succession of ne'er-do-well friends and neighbors, a darker picture is painted of this normal family -- particularly Nicola, who is convinced she is fat and ugly (despite her emaciated appearance), with Natalie being a constant rebuke to her.

A tale of everyday survival in Thatcher's Britain. Andy is a professional chef and part-time DIY enthusiast who buys a decrepit hamburger van. His wife helps out at a restaurant owned by a friend. Of their daughters, Nicola suffers from anorexia which no-one in the family confronts, and is also obsessed with men and Marxism, while Natalie, an apprentice plumber, refuses the stereotyped female image and dreams of escaping to America.

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