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Life Is Sweet

Mike Leigh · 1990 CE · Film · English · Contemporary

In a north London suburb an unsinkably cheerful mother holds together a chef husband chasing a food-van dream and twin daughters — one steady and employed, the other raging, jobless and secretly bulimic. Devised through Leigh's long improvisation process with his cast, it stands with Secrets & Lies at the centre of British realist tragicomedy.

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