A down on his luck Irishman in London decides to play snooker for money. Read More »
Tag Archives: Alison Steadman
Abigail’s Party (1977) Mike Leigh, Alison Steadman, Tim Stern, Janine Duvitski
Beverly has invited her new neighbours, Angela and Tony, over for drinks. Read More »
Life Is Sweet (1990) Mike Leigh, Alison Steadman, Jim Broadbent, Claire Skinner, Comedy, Drama
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.
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Coming Through (1985) Peter Barber-Fleming, Kenneth Branagh, Helen Mirren, Alison Steadman, Drama, Romance
Celebrated actors Kenneth Branagh (Hamlet) and Helen Mirren (Prime Suspect) star in this film by award-winning playwright Alan Plater about one of the great love affairs and greatest scandals of the twentieth century – D. H. Lawrence’s passionate relationship with Frieda Weekley.
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Nuts in May (1976) Mike Leigh, Roger Sloman, Alison Steadman, Anthony O’Donnell, Drama
A middle-class couple go camping in Dorset, but peace and quiet elude them.
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