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Film details
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Featuring
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Director
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Country
United Kingdom
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Year
1991
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Genres
Comedy Drama
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Type
Film
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Category
Fiction
Introduction
“Watching this movie made me realise how boring and thin many movies are; how they substitute plots for the fascinations of life.”
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times, 1991
Life Is Sweet was Mike Leigh’s third film for cinema in the first two decades of a directing career spent primarily in television and the theatre. The script, devised through his famed improvisatory process, mixes food-related incidents: the opening of a restaurant, the purchase of a burger van, and the revelation of a young woman’s bulimia.
Through apparently humdrum struggles the film’s suburban Londoners, Jim Broadbent, Leigh’s then-wife Alison Steadman and their chalk-and-cheese adult twins Jane Horrocks and Claire Skinner, reveal hidden strengths.
This was Leigh’s first film with director of photography Dick Pope, subsequently a regular collaborator, and also the debut project from Thin Man Productions, which Leigh ran with his producer Simon Channing Williams until the latter’s death in 2009.
David Thewlis, who has a small role as the lover of Jane Horrocks’s Nicola, went on to become the focus of Leigh’s next feature, Naked (1993).
Cast & Credits
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Cast
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Wendy
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Andy
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Aubrey
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Natalie
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Nicola
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Nicola's lover
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Paula
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Patsy
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Steve
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customer
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chef
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Nigel
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Credits
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Direction:
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Directed by
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1st Assistant Director
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2nd Assistant Director
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3rd Assistant Director
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4th Assistant Director
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Script Supervisor
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Additional Script Supervision
Rights:
Production:
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A Thin Man Film
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Production Company
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Presents
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Produced by
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Production Supervisor
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Production Co-ordinator
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Production Accountant
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Assistant Accountant
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Location Manager
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Producer's Assistant
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Production Runner
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Rehearsal Production Runner
Casting:
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Casting Director
Writing:
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Written by
Photography:
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Director of Photography
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Lighting by
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Camera Operator
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Focus Puller
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Clapper Loader
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Gaffer
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Best Boy
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Electrician
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Genny Operator
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Camera Grip
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Standby Rigger
Stills:
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Additional Stills
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Stills Photography
Special Effects:
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Thin Man Logo Design
Editing:
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Jobfit Trainee
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Edited by
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First Assistant Editor
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Second Assistant Editor
Design:
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Post-production
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Production Designer
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Art Director
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Art Department Assistant
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Production Buyer
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Property Master
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Standby props
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Dressing Props
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Standby props
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Construction Manager
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Standby Painter
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Standby Carpenter
Costumes:
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Costume Designer
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Assistant Costume Designer
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Wardrobe Supervisor
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Wardrobe Supervisor
Make-up:
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Make-up/Hair
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Make-up/Hair
Titles:
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Titles
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Title Opticals
Film processing:
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Originated on
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Print by
Music:
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Song "Happy Holidays" by
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Music by
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Song "Happy Holidays" by
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Conductor
Sound:
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Music recorded at
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Sound Recordist
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Jobfit Trainee
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Sound Engineer
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Boom Operator
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Sound Re-recording
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Dubbing Mixer
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Sound Editor
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Dubbing Editor
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Assistant Dubbing Editor
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Foley (Adviser)
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Foleys Editor
Stunts:
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Stunt Arranger
Publicity:
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Publicity
Transportation:
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Unit Driver
Supplier:
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Camera Equipment
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Catering
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Food Adviser
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