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Release Date:
17 November 1998 (USA) more
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Plot:
A series following the lives of Miles, Milly, Warren, Egg and Anna, five young professionals.
Awards:
4 wins & 2 nominations more
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"This Life" is real life without the boring bits! more (13 total)

Cast

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Jack Davenport ... Miles Stewart (32 episodes, 1996-1997)
Amita Dhiri ... Milly Nassim (32 episodes, 1996-1997)
Andrew Lincoln ... Edgar 'Egg' Cook (32 episodes, 1996-1997)

Daniela Nardini ... Anna Forbes (32 episodes, 1996-1997)
Luisa Bradshaw-White ... Kira (26 episodes, 1996-1997)
David Mallinson ... O'Donnell (26 episodes, 1996-1997)
Steve John Shepherd ... Jo (26 episodes, 1996-1997)
Ramon Tikaram ... Ferdy (21 episodes, 1996-1997)
Jason Hughes ... Warren Jones (19 episodes, 1996-1997)
Natasha Little ... Rachel (17 episodes, 1997)
Cyril Nri ... Graham (17 episodes, 1996-1997)
Geoffrey Bateman ... Hooperman (15 episodes, 1996-1997)
Gillian McCutcheon ... Therapist (15 episodes, 1996-1997)
Juliet Cowan ... Nicki (15 episodes, 1997)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
45 min
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Certification:
Australia:MA (some episodes) | Australia:M

Fun Stuff

Quotes:
Anna: There have been nights when I've lost it. I always seem to find it again in the morning. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in "Screenwipe: (#2.2)" (2006) more
Soundtrack:
This Life Theme more

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6 out of 7 people found the following comment useful.
"This Life" is real life without the boring bits!, 28 October 1998
Author: rossif from Brisbane Australia

This is one of the most addictive, amusing and involving TV

series I have yet seen. It has a kind of cultish appeal, and I

know a lot of people who follow it closely and discuss each

weekly installment as if it was real life. That's the key I

think. This series is based in reality. A group of very

different personalities share a house in South London and the 2

year story shows their growing relationships and their

interraction with various friends and colleagues mainly in the

legal profession. It's fairly graphic stuff with sex in

various forms, nudity, bad language and drug use presented in a

very matter of fact way. The characters are believable and

appealing despite the warts and all presentation, and the lines

are often bitingly clever. Daniela Nardini as Anna gets the

best lines by far, delivered in a wonderful Scottish brogue for

maximum effect. All good things must come to an end however and

the series concludes with the happy group disintegrating after a

massive row. But it was good while it lasted. What a

stunning, intelligent and

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