Life Is Sweet (film)

Life Is Sweet
Directed byMike Leigh
Written byMike Leigh
Produced bySimon Channing Williams
Starring
CinematographyDick Pope
Edited byJon Gregory
Music byRachel Portman
Production
company
Distributed byPalace Pictures
Release dates
  • 11 November 1990 (1990-11-11) (London Film Festival)
  • 22 March 1991 (1991-03-22) (United Kingdom)
Running time
103 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
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.

  1. ^ a b "Back to the Future: The Fall and Rise of the British Film Industry in the 1980s – An Information Briefing" (PDF). British Film Institute. 2005. p. 25.

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