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Life is sweet [Blu-ray videorecording] / a film by Mike Leigh.

Criterion Collection, 2013.

Suburban life -- Drama.

Social classes -- Drama.

Criterion collection ; 659.

Video Difference legacy collection.

[Blu-ray videorecording] /

Director-approved DVD special ed.

1 Blu-ray disc (103 min.) : 2.0 Dolby digital Surround sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 booklet ([18] p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.)

Originally released as a comedy-drama motion picture in 1990.

Special features: New, restored 2K digital film transfer, supervised by director of photography Dick Pope ; new audio commentary (featuring director Mike Leigh and record in 2013); 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 ; PLUS: a booklet featuring an essay by critic David Sterritt.

English (SDH) subtitles for the hearing impaired.

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.

Alison Steadman, Jim Broadbent, Timothy Spall, Claire Skinner, Jane Horrocks, David Thewlis, Moya Brady and Stephen Rea.

"This invigorating film from Mike Leigh was his first international sensation. Melancholy and funny by turns, it is an intimate portrait of a working class family in a suburb just north of London - an irrepressible mum and dad (Alison Steadman and Jim Broadbent) and their night-and-day twins, a bookish good girl and a troubled, ill-tempered layabout (Claire Skinner and Jane Horrocks). Leigh and his typically brilliant cast create, with extraordinary sensitivity and craft 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."--Container.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Leigh, Mike, 1943-

Steadman, Alison, 1946-

Broadbent, Jim.

Spall, Timothy, 1957-

Skinner, Claire.

Horrocks, Jane, 1964-

Thewlis, David, 1963-

Brady, Moya, 1962-

Criterion Collection (Firm)

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