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Life is Sweet

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Original title

Life is Sweet

Year

1990

Running time

103 min.

Country

United Kingdom

Director

Mike Leigh

Screenwriter

Mike Leigh

Cast

Music

Rachel Portman

Cinematography

Dick Pope

Producer

Film4 Productions, British Screen, Thin Man Films

Genre

Comedy. Drama | Comedy-Drama. Disease/illness

Synopsis

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.

Awards: 1991: Los Angeles Film Critics Association: Nominated for Best Supp. Actress (Horrocks)

1991: Independent Spirit Awards: Nominated to Best Foreign Film

1991: National Society of Film Critics (NSFC): 3 awards. 4 nominations

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Life is Sweet

1990

Mike Leigh

6.8

(675)