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Mike Leigh understands people. His portrayals of life, in all its mundanities and disappointments, never stops in saying something new and funny, which he does to great results in "Life Is Sweet". The performances of Jane Horrocks and Alison Steadman are brilliant and Oscar-worthy. Mike Leigh is a true artist who needs to be appreciated more as one of the best filmmakers of our time - with an outlet for his singular voice!!

The show is well made and enjoyable, and if your fond of the myriad of True-Crime dramas which have been gracing (and gracing and gracing and gracing...) our screens over the last several years, then you'll probably find something worthwhile here - but nothing new. The performances are all excellent but it's the one given by the great Chloe Sevigny which truly transcends. Sevigny takes a role which so easily could have been thankless and as cliche as some of the shows other elements, and turns it into a beautiful and gut wrenching portrayal of grief and the fight to live in face of it. She is a virtuoso and it's about time that we as a society gave her her flowers.

This movie was so fun, heartwarming and entertaining. I really don't understand the psychology of those who are excessively downvoting just for the sake of it.