All Or Nothing

After a successful foray into the period opulence of TOPSY-TURVY (1999), writer-director Mike Leigh returned to the milieu for which he's best known: the hardscrabble housing-block world of Britain's contemporary working class. The setting is a typically cheerless council flat in Southeast London, where Phil (Timothy Spall), a taxi driver with Gladiator Cars, and his common-law-wife, Safeway supermarket cashier Penny (Lesley Manville), live with their two children, Rachel (Alison Garland) and Rory (James Corden). Rachel works as a housekeeper at a nursing home while morbidly obese Rory does nothing but lie on the couch, watch TV and insult his mother. Phil's co-woker...