Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Book Cover
film
FilmDVD

Uniform Title Life is sweet (Motion picture)
Title Life is sweet / Film Four International and British Screen present a Thin Man Film ; a film by Mike Leigh ; produced by Simon Channing-Williams ; written & directed by Mike Leigh.

Publication Info. [United States] : Criterion Collection, 2013.
1990.

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Bloomfield at the Atrium  DVD LIFE    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Videos  DVD LIFE    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  CRI DVD LIF    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult DVD  DVD LIFE    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Media Room  DVD LIFE    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - DVDs  DVD L    Check Shelf
Edition Director-approved DVD special edition.
Description 1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([18] pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.).
Series Criterion collection ; 659
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 659.
System Details DVD, NTSC, region 1, widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; Dolby digital 2.0 surround.
Cast Alison Steadman, Jim Broadbent, Timothy Spall, Claire Skinner, Jane Horrocks, David Thewlis, Moya Brady, Stephen Rea.
Credits Costume designer, Lindy Hemming ; production designer, Alison Chitty ; music by Rachel Portman ; director of photography, Dick Pope ; edited by Jon Gregory.
Note Originally released as a motion picture in 1990.
Audience Rating: R; for language and a scene of sensuality.
Summary An amusing portrait of a working-class family in a suburb just north of London, an irrepressible mum and dad and their night-and-day twins, a bookish good girl and a sneering lay about. A vivid, lived-in story of ordinary existence, in which even modest dreams (such as the father's desire to open a food truck) carry enormous weight. Perched on the line between humor and melancholy.
Note Special features: Commentary (featuring director Mike Leigh); Mike Leigh at the National Film Theatre (interview with director); Five minute films (five short films written and directed by Mike Leigh in 1975): Probation, The birth of the goalie of the 2001 F.A. cup final, Old chums, A light snack, Afternoon. Booklet features an essay by critic David Sterritt.
Language English dialogue with optional English subtitles.
Note GMD: videorecording.
Subject Families -- England -- Drama.
Suburbs -- England -- Drama.
Twins -- England -- Drama.
Genre/Form Feature films.
Comedy films.
Added Author Leigh, Mike, 1943- screenwriter, film director.
Channing-Williams, Simon, film producer.
Steadman, Alison, 1946- actor.
Broadbent, Jim, actor.
Spall, Timothy, 1957- actor.
Skinner, Claire, actor.
Horrocks, Jane, 1964- actor.
Thewlis, David, 1963- actor.
Brady, Moya, actor.
Rea, Stephen, actor.
Hemming, Lindy, costume designer.
Chitty, Alison, production designer.
Portman, Rachel, composer (expression)
Pope, Dick, B.S.C., director of photography.
Gregory, Jon (Film editor), editor of moving mage work.
Sterritt, David, author.
Film Four International.
British Screen.
Thin Man Films (Firm)
Criterion Collection (Firm)
Added Title Probation.
Birth of the goalie of the 2001 F.A. cup final.
Old chums.
Light snack.
Afternoon.
ISBN 9781604657210
1604657219
Standard No. 715515105514
Music No. CC2259D The Criterion Collection
-->
Add a Review