Life Is Sweet

Mike Leigh directs this British comedy set in a lower-middle class household in a London suburb. Parents Wendy (Alison Steadman) and Andy (Jim Broadbent) and their twin daughters Natalie (Claire Skinner) and Nicola (Jane Horrocks) are a modern family at odds with itself. Whilst Natalie quietly focuses on progressing into the plumbing industry, bulimic Nicola grows increasingly sullen and misanthropic.

Director: Mike Leigh
Producer: Simon Channing-Williams
Writer: Mike Leigh
Music: Rachel Portman
Cinematographer: Dick Pope
Actor: Alison Steadman
Actor: Jim Broadbent
Actor: Timothy Spall
Actor: Claire Skinner
Actor: Jane Horrocks
Actor: David Thewlis
Actor: Moya Brady
Actor: Stephen Rea
Actor: David Neilson
Actor: Jack Thorpe Baker