Life Is Sweet 1990 123movies

Watch: Life Is Sweet 1990 123movies, Full Movie Online – Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, leads aerobics at a primary school, jokes like a vaudevillian, agrees to waitress at a friend’s new restaurant and dotes on Andy, a cook who forever puts off home remodeling projects, and with a drunken friend, buys a broken down lunch wagon. Natalie, with short neat hair and a snappy, droll manner, is a plumber; she has a holiday planned in America, but little else. Last is Nicola, odd man out: a snarl, big glasses, cigarette, mussed hair, jittery fingers, bulimic, jobless, and unhappy. How they interact and play out family conflict and love is the film’s subject..
Plot: Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, leads aerobics at a primary school, jokes like a vaudevillian, agrees to waitress at a friend’s new restaurant and dotes on Andy, a cook who forever puts off home remodeling projects, and with a drunken friend, buys a broken down lunch wagon. Natalie, with short neat hair and a snappy, droll manner, is a plumber; she has a holiday planned in America, but little else. Last is Nicola, odd man out: a snarl, big glasses, cigarette, mussed hair, jittery fingers, bulimic, jobless, and unhappy. How they interact and play out family conflict and love is the film’s subject.
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Ratings:

	7.4/10 Votes: 10,581
	93% | RottenTomatoes
	88/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 131 Popularity: 5.624 | TMDB

Reviews:

Extra-ordinary
I often fantasise about directing a movie (yes, I know I’m sad!), and I would like to think that my movies would come out like Mike Leigh’s: affectionate without being sentimental, funny without crossing over into out-and-out comedy, realistic without being bleak or depressing.

This portrayal of an “ordinary” English family is everything a film ought to be. Great acting – Alison Steadman in particular – her character’s relentless optimism and cheerfulness interspersed with knowing when a situation needs to be treated more seriously; Jim Broadbent as the day-dreaming father and Jane Horrocks as the anorexic Nicola. All the characters are beautifully drawn, including the minor characters (Timothy Spall as doomed chef Aubrey, Stephen Rea as dodgy-dealer Patsy, David Thewlis as Nicola’s unnamed lover).

Some typical Leigh scenes include the excellently framed shot of the burger-van in the scrapyard (which could almost be a painting!), and the panning shot along the back of the row of houses (implying that similar dramas are unfolding in everyone’s lives).

Not much actually happens, but that’s part of the point – it takes in themes of happiness, hopes and dreams, friendship and family ties. Clearly a precursor to “Secrets And Lies”, this is a simpler, purer film, but with the same message of ultimate optimism.

A sublime slice of ordinary life from Mike Leigh
A sublime slice of ordinary life from Mike Leigh. He takes us through 5 days in the life of a London family: Jim Broadbent, Alison Steadman and their twin daughters Claire Skinner and Jane Horrox. What follows is by turns touching, hilarious and unsettling. Leigh is often compared to Ken Loach, but Loach deals with unspeakably grim and often melodramatic scenarios. The far more impressive gift of Leigh is to make tales from the apparently unremarkable. So many touches run true here; Steadman doing a little dance to herself alone in the kitchen, Broadbent and Stephen Rea drunkenly reciting the Spurs Double side, Skinner describing an arthritic old woman met on her plumbing round. And the tragedy of the film is also unveiled naturally and feels horribly believable.

The performances are also astonishing. Broadbent and Steadman, both distinctive actors, can descend into parody but here are just hugely enjoyable. Skinner is nicely deadpan but the star is Horrox, playing a twitching wreck of a girl who mainly communicates in one word insults. Little wonder she’s been given so many chances to prove her talents subsequently, just a shame she’s never taken them. The only false note is Tim Spall as a manic chef. Perhaps that’s because he’s simply put in for comic value (he was far better in Leigh’s ‘Secrets and Lies’), his character given none of the depth which lights up the rest of the film.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 43 min (103 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 1500000
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Comedy, Drama
Director Mike Leigh
Writer Mike Leigh
Actors Alison Steadman, Jim Broadbent, Claire Skinner
Country United Kingdom
Awards 8 wins & 3 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby (Westrex Recording System)
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
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