Life Is Sweet | |
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Directed by | Mike Leigh |
Written by | Mike Leigh |
Produced by | Simon Channing Williams |
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Cinematography | Dick Pope |
Edited by | Jon Gregory |
Music by | Rachel Portman |
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Distributed by | Palace Pictures |
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Running time | 103 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Budget | £1 million[1] |
Box office | $1.5 million (US) £530,000 (UK)[1] |
Life Is Sweet is a 1990 British comedy-drama film directed by Mike Leigh, starring Alison Steadman, Jim Broadbent, Claire Skinner, Jane Horrocks and Timothy Spall. Leigh's third cinematic film, it was his most commercially successful title at the time of release. A tragi-comic story, it follows the fortunes of a working-class North London family over a few weeks one summer.