Mike Leigh’s first international sensation stars Alison Steadmank, Jim Broadbent, Claire Skinner, and Jane Horrocks in this invigorating, intimate portrait of a working-class family in a suburb just north of London. Melancholy and funny by turns, Leigh and his brilliant cast create a vivid, lived-in story of ordinary existence, in which even modest dreams carry enormous weight.
Mike Leigh’s first international sensation stars Alison Steadmank, Jim Broadbent, Claire Skinner, and Jane Horrocks in this invigorating, intimate portrait of a working-class family in a suburb just north of London. Melancholy and funny by turns, Leigh and his brilliant cast create a vivid, lived-in story of ordinary existence, in which even modest dreams carry enormous weight.