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Life Is Sweet
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Independent films.
- Drama.
- Comedy.
- Motion pictures.
- Genre:
- Feature films
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (streaming video file) (104 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
- Place of Publication:
- The Criterion Collection 1990
- [San Francisco, California, USA] Kanopy Streaming 2023
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- digital
- video file MPEG-4 Flash
- Summary:
- 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
- Participant:
- Alison Steadman, Claire Skinner, David Thewlis, Jane Horrocks, Jim Broadbent, Stephen Rea, Timothy Spall
- Notes:
- Title from title frames
- Film
- In Process Record
- Originally produced by The Criterion Collection in 1990
- Publisher Number:
- 14376049 Kanopy
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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