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Title: Life Is Sweet (1990)
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| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Alison Steadman | ... | Wendy | |
| Jim Broadbent | ... | Andy | |
| Claire Skinner | ... | Natalie | |
| Jane Horrocks | ... | Nicola | |
| Stephen Rea | ... | Patsy | |
| Timothy Spall | ... | Aubrey | |
| David Thewlis | ... | Nicola's Lover | |
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Moya Brady | ... | Paula |
| David Neilson | ... | Steve | |
| Harriet Thorpe | ... | Customer | |
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Paul Trussell | ... | Chef (as Paul Trussel) |
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Jack Thorpe Baker | ... | Nigel |
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. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
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this is another one of those movies that i loved so much the first time i saw it, i cried in the theater, went home, came back the next day with a friend in tow.
unlike the other movies i did this with (raising Arizona, after hours), the person i saw it with actually got the movie the first time, and loved it as much as i did. yes, naked and Topsy turvy got all the praise, but this is my favorite Leigh movie. it is just so...sweet.
i would talk about this movie years after seeing it saying that it was so heartbreakingly real, if you cut the screen, it would bleed. the was something so compelling about everyone in this movie. someone said they were pathetic, but i couldn't say i saw it like that. they were just flawed people doing the best they could. to me that is so beautiful. for years i would wish that America had a real working class director like mike Leigh. someone who showed people struggling. we need it so very badly, as the aftermath of Katrina can attest to. we forget our poor over here.
the funniest thing was i wold watch this movie when i got depressed, and it made me feel less alone. it cheered me up.