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.

Special Features

Commentary: Mike Leigh, Interviews: Mike Leigh (director), Five short films written and directed by Mike Leigh for the proposed television series 'Five-Minute Films', with a new audio introduction by Leigh; New cover by Eric Skillman; Essay by David Sterritt (critic)

Actors: Jim Broadbent, Alison Steadman, Claire Skinner, Jane Horrocks

Audio Languages: English

Duration: 103 minutes

Number of Discs: 1

Subtitle Languages: English

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