Name: Life is Sweet + A Running Jump
Brand: Mike Leigh

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

BFIB1275

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Discs

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

DVD + Blu-ray Dual Format Edition

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Format Film GB

Blu-ray

Limited edition

Release date

2020-12-04

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Trinity Creative Partnership

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

5035673012758

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1 / Blu-ray / Extended format: Yes / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Mike Leigh

Genre GB

Comedy

Label GB

Mike Leigh’s third feature, which opened in 1990, remains one of the celebrated director’s most admired and affecting films.

Life is Sweet depicts a summer in the life of a modern working-class family surviving in Thatcher’s Britain. This Dual Format Edition also contains the previously unreleased comedy short A Running Jump (2012) and a raft of special features unreleased in the UK, including a newly filmed interview with Jane Horrocks and an audio commentary by Mike Leigh.

Andy (Jim Broadbent) is a professional chef and DIY enthusiast who buys a decrepit burger van. His wife Wendy (Alison Steadman) helps out with the launch of a Parisian-themed restaurant, The Regret Rien. One daughter, Nicola (Jane Horrocks), suffers from bulimia and is obsessed with men and Marxism, while the other, Natalie (Claire Skinner), is an apprentice plumber who dreams of escaping to America.

This hilarious yet tragic domestic portrait features a dazzling ensemble performance and remains a potent, true-to-life story.