Life Is Sweet (1990)

UK:: 15 US:: R Comedy Drama

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.

Updated May 11 2020

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FACTS

Runtime: 103 mins Revenue: $1,500,000 Rating: 7.1

Cast

Jim Broadbent

Stephen Rea

Coneely

Timothy Spall

Aubrey, Regret Rien Owner

David Thewlis

Nicola's Lover

Jane Horrocks

Huccaby (voice)

Claire Skinner

Natalie

Alison Steadman

Wendy

Moya Brady

Regret Rien Waitress

Crew

Rachel Portman

Music

Lindy Hemming

Costume Design

Jon Gregory

Editor

Simon Channing Williams

Producer

Dick Pope

Director of Photography

Mike Leigh

Director