Home Sweet Home (1982)

Directed by

Mike Leigh

Genre

drama film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 28m

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This TV film follows several people including postmen, parents, social workers, and others in a small English town. It shows their ordinary lives and the small conflicts that arise between them.

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What happens

Home Sweet Home is a 1982 television film devised and directed by Mike Leigh, for the BBC, 'about postmen, parenthood, social workers and sex.' It was Leigh's second collaboration with Play for Today producer Louis Marks, and cinematographer Remi Adefarasin, (after Grown-Ups), and with composer Carl Davis – the musical score featured a quartet of basses – (Davis had also provided the music for 1977s The Kiss of Death). It stars Timothy Spall (working with Leigh for the first time), Eric Richard, Tim Barker, Kay Stonham, Su Elliot, Frances Barber, Sheila Kelley, and Lorraine Brunning. It was first broadcast on 16 March 1982. The film was shot on location in Hitchin, Hertfordshire and has a 90 minutes duration. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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