Life Is Sweet

Name: Life Is Sweet
Director: Mike Leigh
Released: 1990
Duration: 103 min
Rating: 7.4
Cast: Alison Steadman, Jim Broadbent, Claire Skinner, Jane Horrocks, Stephen Rea

1990 · 103 MIN · IMDB 7.4 · 11,686 VOTES · DIR. Mike Leigh

Overview

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.

Dialogue Timeline — 2,154 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:13 Alright Suzi are you ready?

00:03:47 Where you been? Town

00:06:48 My little Natalie and my little Nicola

00:10:53 Yeah, dead slow and stop

00:15:02 Dad, get us twenty silk cut

00:20:44 How long have you been here?

00:23:32 Have you bought it?

00:26:16 Yeah

00:29:14 So people can choose them and I'm going to cook them in over a minute y'know

00:32:16 An opportunity to enter into brave new venture

00:35:32 No all I'm saying Andy

00:39:42 Oh blimey yeah

00:47:52 Well don't do it

00:53:13 Aw poor Joan

00:56:53 No it's not called cyst?

01:00:35 No not on a Tuesday no

01:05:29 You've never even dreamed of

01:10:11 I kiss your feet

01:15:18 You're not having no lager

01:19:38 Are you capable of that?

01:24:11 Well why didn't you have an abortion?

01:28:26 Blimey you're not a greyhound in a race

01:30:43 Into the peas

01:33:28 That's it that's it

Cast & Characters

Alison Steadman Wendy Jim Broadbent Andy Claire Skinner Natalie Jane Horrocks Nicola Stephen Rea Patsy Timothy Spall Aubrey David Thewlis Nicola's Lover Moya Brady Paula David Neilson Steve Harriet Thorpe Customer

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed2,154

Dialogue density20.9 lines / min

First line00:00:13

Final line01:33:28

Production Record

DirectorMike Leigh

LanguageEnglish

Revenue$1,500,000

IMDb votes11,686