Mike Leigh Collection ( Career Girls / Naked / Life Is Sweet / A Sense of History / The Short & Curlies )

Mike Leigh Collection (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Career Girls / Naked / Life Is Sweet / A Sense of History / The Short & Curlies
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Cannes Film Festival
European Film Awards
Toronto International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
349 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
3-DVD Set
Box Set
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1988-1997 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Mike Leigh

Written By:
Mike Leigh
Jim Broadbent

Actors:
Katrin Cartlidge ..... Hannah
Lynda Steadman ..... Annie
Kate Byers ..... Claire
Mark Benton ..... Richard 'Ricky' Burton
Andy Serkis ..... Mr. Evans
Joe Tucker ..... Adrian
Margo Stanley ..... Ricky's Nan
Michael Healy ..... Lecturer
Goran Kostic ..... Student
David Thewlis ..... Johnny
Lesley Sharp ..... Louise
Katrin Cartlidge ..... Sophie
Greg Cruttwell ..... Jeremy
Claire Skinner ..... Sandra
Peter Wight ..... Brian
Ewen Bremner ..... Archie
Susan Vidler ..... Maggie
Deborah MacLaren ..... Woman in Window
Gina McKee ..... Cafe Girl
Carolina Giammetta ..... Masseuse
Elizabeth Berrington ..... Giselle
Darren Tunstall ..... Poster Man
Robert Putt ..... Chauffeur
Lynda Rooke ..... Victim
Angela Curran ..... Car Owner
Peter Whitman ..... Mr Halpern
Jo Abercrombie ..... Woman in Street
Elaine Britten ..... Girl in Porsche
David Foxxe ..... Tea Bar Owner
Mike Avenall ..... Men at Tea Bar
Toby Jones ..... Men at Tea Bar
Sandra Voe ..... Bag Lady
Alison Steadman ..... Wendy
Jim Broadbent ..... Andy
Claire Skinner ..... Natalie
Jane Horrocks ..... Nicola
Stephen Rea ..... Patsy
Timothy Spall ..... Aubrey
David Thewlis ..... Nicola's Lover
Moya Brady ..... Paula
David Neilson ..... Steve
Harriet Thorpe ..... Customer
Paul Trussell ..... Chef
Jack Thorpe Baker ..... Nigel
Jim Broadbent ..... Written & Performed by
Stephen Bill ..... Giddy
Belinda Bradley ..... The Earl's daughter
Edward Bradley ..... The Earl's son
Roma ..... Self
Alison Steadman ..... Betty
Sylvestra Le Touzel ..... Joy
David Thewlis ..... Clive
Wendy Nottingham ..... Charlene

Synopsis:

Career Girls: Career girls opens with a train journey towards London's Kings Cross where Annie, one of the major characters is about to meet her old university friend Hannah. She recalls moving into a grotty student flat with Hannah in the mid-eighties. In those days Annie was self conscious and jumpy. The pair have not seen one another since graduation. They both now have moderately successful careers and are, at least on the surface, self assured in their new lives. However, they are still carrying a lot of emotional baggage from their university days. During the course of a weekend they rediscover their close friendship and encounter many faces from the past. Naked: Johnny flees Manchester for London, to avoid a beating from the family of a girl he has raped. There he finds an old girlfriend, and spends some time homeless, spending much of his time ranting at strangers, and meeting characters in plights very much like his own. Life Is Sweet: 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. A Sense of History: The 23rd Earl of Leete shares brief moments of his life, the truth behind his family estate and his particular glorious moment when he murdered his wife and his brother. The Short & Curlies: A short comedy by Mike Leigh about the romance between a young woman and a man who communicates only through jokes and humor. The story is told as a series of very short vignettes between her and the man and her and her doting mother, a hairdresser.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 10 August, 2020.