Life Is Sweet

(1991)

★ 7 IMDb · 175 votes

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Year: 1991

Runtime: 103 мин

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Майк Ли

Cast: Элисон Стедман, Джим Бродбент, Тимоти Сполл, Claire Skinner, Джейн Хоррокс, Дэвид Тьюлис, Мойя Брэди, Стивен Ри, David Neilson, Harriet Thorpe

Plot

Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, Andy is a cook who forever puts off home remodeling projects, Natalie is a plumber and Nicola is jobless. This film is about how they interact and play out family, conflict and love.

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.