Life Is Sweet (film)

Life Is Sweet
Directed by	Mike Leigh
Written by	Mike Leigh
Produced by	Simon Channing Williams
Starring	Alison Steadman Jim Broadbent Timothy Spall Claire Skinner Jane Horrocks David Thewlis Moya Brady Stephen Rea
Cinematography	Dick Pope
Edited by	Jon Gregory
Music by	Rachel Portman
Production company	Thin Man Films
Distributed by	Palace Pictures
Release date	22 November 1990 (1990-11-22)
Running time	103 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Budget	£1 million[1]
Box office	$1.5 million (US) £530,000 (UK)[1]

Life Is Sweet is a 1990 British comedy-drama film directed by Mike Leigh, starring Alison Steadman, Jim Broadbent, Claire Skinner, Jane Horrocks and Timothy Spall. Leigh's third cinematic film, it was his most commercially successful title at the time of release. A tragi-comic story, it follows the fortunes of a working-class North London family over a few weeks one summer.