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Tag Archives: Mike Leigh
Another Year (2010) Mike Leigh, Jim Broadbent, Ruth Sheen, Lesley Manville
A married couple who have managed to remain blissfully happy into their autumn years Read More »
The Kiss of Death (1977) Mike Leigh, David Threlfall, John Wheatley, Kay Adshead
Trevor is an extremely shy undertaker’s assistant. He always tags along with his good friend Ronnie Read More »
Play for Today: Nuts in May (1976) Mike Leigh, Roger Sloman, Alison Steadman, Anthony O’Donnell
Their Morris packed to the gills, the punctilious Keith and the more spontaneous Candice-Marie arrive at a Dorset Read More »
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 »
Meantime (1984) Mike Leigh, Marion Bailey, Tim Roth, Phil Daniels, Comedy, Drama
An odd film, primarily looking at how the dole affects the underclass in Britain. Tim Roth stars as Colin, a slow and possibly intellectually disabled man living with his parents and brother in a housing project. 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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Bleak Moments (1971) Mike Leigh, Anne Raitt, Sarah Stephenson, Eric Allan, Comedy, Drama
Bleak Moments (1971) is Mike Leigh’s first feature film. The film presents a stark portrayal of human isolation, centring on the failure of personal communication and social interaction. In its uncompromising outlook, it is closer to Meantime (1983) and Naked (1993) than to Leigh’s more optimistic works.
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Topsy-Turvy (1999) Mike Leigh, Jim Broadbent, Allan Corduner, Dexter Fletcher, Biography, Comedy, Drama, Musical
After their production “Princess Ida” meets with less-than-stunning reviews, the relationship between Gilbert and Sullivan is strained to breaking. Their friends and associates attempt to get the two to work together again, which opens the way to “The Mikado,” one of the duo’s greatest successes.
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