#48. Life Is Sweet (1990)

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Thin Man Films

– Director: Mike Leigh

– Stacker score: 89.1

– Metascore: 88

– IMDb user rating: 7.5

– Runtime: 103 minutes

“Life Is Sweet” is the story of a family and their lives in a working-class suburb of London. Alison Steadman, who played suburban wife and mother Wendy in the film, was married to director Mike Leigh. They divorced in 2001, after almost 30 years of marriage.