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Mike Leigh (writer)
Release Date:
December 1991 (USA)
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Plot:
Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop...
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Awards:
6 wins
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1 nomination
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(3 articles)
Mood Swings By James Ponsoldt
(From Filmmaker Magazine_Web Exclusives. 13 March 2009, 9:43 AM, PDT)
Worth Watching - Aug 8: Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky Trailer
(From FirstShowing.net. 8 August 2008, 5:00 PM, PDT)
(From Filmmaker Magazine_Web Exclusives. 13 March 2009, 9:43 AM, PDT)
Worth Watching - Aug 8: Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky Trailer
(From FirstShowing.net. 8 August 2008, 5:00 PM, PDT)
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sublime - but qualification criteria may well apply
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Alison Steadman | ... | Wendy |
 | Jim Broadbent | ... | Andy |
| Claire Skinner | ... | Natalie |
 | Jane Horrocks | ... | Nicola |
 | Stephen Rea | ... | Patsy |
 | Timothy Spall | ... | Aubrey, Regret Rien Owner |
 | David Thewlis | ... | Nicola's Lover |
| Moya Brady | ... | Paula, Aubrey's Cook |
| David Neilson | ... | Steve the Plumber |
| Harriet Thorpe | ... | Bunnikins' Customer |
| Paul Trussel | ... | Chef where Andy Works |
| Jack Thorpe-Baker | ... | Nigel |
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Rated R for language and a scene of sensuality.
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103 min
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Color (Metrocolor)
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1.66 : 1 more
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The menu of the Aubrey's Regret Rien restaurant includes: Black pudding and Camembert soup, Boiled Bacon Comsommé, Saveloy on a bed of Lychees, Liver in Lager, Pork Cyst, Clams in a Ham and Prune Quiche, King Prawns in Jam Sauce, Duck in Chocolate Sauce, Tongues in a Rhubarb hollandaise, Tripe Soufflé.
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[Natalie and Nicola ponder having children]
Natalie: Well, I wouldn't fancy bringing one up on me own.
Nicola: It's better to be on your own than be with a bastard.
Natalie: Well, presumably you wouldn't *choose* a bastard in the first place if you had any sense!
Nicola: All men are bastards!
Natalie: *What*?
Nicola: They're all potential rapists!
Natalie: That's a bit sweeping!
Nicola: All men have got the ability to rape.
Natalie: Well they don't all do it, do they!
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Natalie: Well, I wouldn't fancy bringing one up on me own.
Nicola: It's better to be on your own than be with a bastard.
Natalie: Well, presumably you wouldn't *choose* a bastard in the first place if you had any sense!
Nicola: All men are bastards!
Natalie: *What*?
Nicola: They're all potential rapists!
Natalie: That's a bit sweeping!
Nicola: All men have got the ability to rape.
Natalie: Well they don't all do it, do they!
[...]
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References Magical Mystery Tour (1967) (TV)
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Just one of those films that is subjectively sublime. Honestly portrayed people just doing stuff and some of it going wrong and some of it going OK. Not sneering but celebrating a certain way of life, and so becoming a celebration of all our lives - maybe this borders into objectivity?
Funny and joyful - with what could pass as tragedy, but still funny. Plenty of the inter-personal stuff that is so often missed in pursuit of consensus cinema. The actors just appear like people that are just there - not acting but just doing things.
Reminded me of crying with laughter after getting caught putting dog-dirt (maybe not familiar with that term?) in my Grandad's petrol tank on the estate - kind of thing - like I say - subjective.