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Life Is Sweet: The Criterion Collection
This invigorating film from Mike Leigh was his first international sensation. Melancholy and funny by turns, it is an intimate portrait of a working class family in a suburb just north of London - an irrepressible mum and dad (Alison Steadman and Jim Broadbent) and their night-and-day twins, a bookish good girl and a troubled, ill-tempered layabout (Claire Skinner and Jane Horrocks). Leigh and his typically brilliant cast create, with extraordinary sensitivity and craft a vivid, lived-in story of ordinary existence, in which even modest dreams - such as the father's desire to open a food truck - carry enormous weight.
Details
- Length
- Rating NR
- Released:
- Added Feb 18 2013
- Production Year 1990
- Empire SKU 1644864
- UPC Code 715515105514
- Studio Criterion
- Packaging Keep
- Number of Discs 1
- Disc SS-DL
Features
New Audio Commentary Featuring Director Mike Leigh
Audio Recording Of A 1991 Interview With Leigh At The National Film theatre in London
Five Short Films Written and Directed by Leigh for the Proposed Television Series Five-Minute Films, With A New Audio Introduction By Leigh
Booklet Featuring An Essay By Critic David Sterritt
Audio/Video
- Audio
English Dolby Digital Stereo
- Video
Widescreen 1.85:1 Color (Anamorphic)
Cast
- Claire Skinner
- Moya Brady
- Timothy Spall
- Jane Horrocks
- Alison Steadman
- Jim Broadbent
- Stephen Rea
- David Thewlis
Production
- Simon Channing-Williams