Life Is Sweet Soap2Day
Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, leads aerobics at a primary school, jokes like a vaudevillian, agrees to waitress at a friend’s new restaurant and dotes on Andy, a cook who forever puts off home remodeling projects, and with a drunken friend, buys a broken down lunch wagon. Natalie, with short neat hair and a snappy, droll manner, is a plumber; she has a holiday planned in America, but little else. Last is Nicola, odd man out: a snarl, big glasses, cigarette, mussed hair, jittery fingers, bulimic, jobless, and unhappy. How they interact and play out family conflict and love is the film’s subject.
Director: David Gilchrist, Gus Maclean, Heather Storr, Hedda Moore, Mike Leigh, Simon Moseley
Actors: Alison Steadman, Claire Skinner, David Neilson, David Thewlis, Harriet Thorpe, Jane Horrocks, Jim Broadbent, Moya Brady, Stephen Rea, Timothy Spall
Country: United Kingdom
Release Date: 1990-11-15
Duration:
1h 43minRelease: 1990
Awards: 8 wins & 3 nominations
IMDb: 7.4
TMDB: 6.94
Metacritic: 88/100