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Directed by: Mike Leigh
Featuring: Alison Steadman, Jim Broadbent, Claire Skinner, Jane Horrocks, Timothy Spall, Stephen Rea, David Thewlis
This invigorating film from Mike Leigh was his first international sensation. Melancholy and funny by turns, it is an intimate portrait of a working-class family in a suburb just north of London—an irrepressible mum and dad (Alison Steadman and Jim Broadbent) and their night-and-day twins, a bookish good girl and a troubled, ill-tempered layabout (Claire Skinner and Jane Horrocks). Leigh and his typically brilliant cast create, with extraordinary sensitivity and craft, a vivid, lived-in story of ordinary existence, in which even modest dreams—such as the father’s desire to open a food truck—carry enormous weight.
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Format:
Blu-ray
Disc:
BD-50 (1 Disc)
Total: 1 Disc
Regions:
A (Blu-ray)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85:1
Audio Options:
English DTS-HD MA Surround 2.0
Subtitles:
English
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Audio Commentary, Audio Interview, Short Film, Booklet
- New audio commentary featuring director Mike Leigh
- Audio recording of a 1991 interview with Mike Leigh at the National Film Theatre in London
- Five short films written and directed by Leigh for the proposed television series Five-Minute Films, with a new audio introduction by Mike Leigh
- A booklet featuring a new essay by critic David Sterritt
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