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Life Is Sweet

1991, Movie, NR, 102 mins

Life Is Sweet: Review

Between High Hopes, a grimly humorous portrait of Thatcherite London, and the apocalyptic Naked, came this sometimes unsettling but essentially sweet-tempered feature from acclaimed British director Mike Leigh. The film concerns a lower-middle-class family of more or less lovable eccentrics living in outer London, headed by the perpetually busy and compulsively optimistic woman of the house, Wendy (Alison Steadman). Read the complete review for Life Is Sweet