---
title: 'Life Is Sweet (1990)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Mike Leigh'
released: '1990-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 103
certification: 'R'
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Comedy'
countries:
  - 'United Kingdom'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/life-is-sweet-1990'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100024/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Life Is Sweet (1990)

1990 · R · 103 min · Drama, Comedy · United Kingdom


## Synopsis

Life Is Sweet is a 1990 British comedy drama film directed by Mike Leigh, starring Alison Steadman, Jim Broadbent, Claire Skinner, Jane Horrocks and Timothy Spall. Leigh's third cinematic film, it was his most commercially successful title at the time of release. A tragi-comic story, it follows the fortunes of a working-class North London family over a few weeks one summer.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Mike Leigh](https://cinepixo.com/people/mike-leigh)
- **Screenplay:** [Mike Leigh](https://cinepixo.com/people/mike-leigh)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Rachel Portman](https://cinepixo.com/people/rachel-portman)
- **Producer:** [Simon Channing-Williams](https://cinepixo.com/people/simon-channing-williams)
- **Director of Photography:** [Dick Pope](https://cinepixo.com/people/dick-pope)
- **Editor:** [Jon Gregory](https://cinepixo.com/people/jon-gregory)

## Cast

- [Alison Steadman](https://cinepixo.com/people/alison-steadman)
- [Jim Broadbent](https://cinepixo.com/people/jim-broadbent)
- [Claire Skinner](https://cinepixo.com/people/claire-skinner)
- [Stephen Rea](https://cinepixo.com/people/stephen-rea)
- [David Thewlis](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-thewlis)
- [Timothy Spall](https://cinepixo.com/people/timothy-spall)
- [Jane Horrocks](https://cinepixo.com/people/jane-horrocks)

## Criticism on CinePixo

No reviews published yet.

Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/life-is-sweet-1990
Film facts: Wikidata (Q752438); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.