Mike Leigh is one of Britain's most respected film directors with a career spanning nearly 40 years. This box set features 10 great films from the British director including a bonus DVD which features specially commissioned footage of Mike Leigh in conversation with twelve of his actors the 2002 broadcast South Bank Show on Leigh and his controversial 1991 London Film Festival trailer. Vera Drake (2004): Vera Drake spends her days doting on her family and caring for her sick neighbour and elderly mother. However she also secretly visits women and helps them induce... miscarriages for unwanted pregnancies. While the practice itself was illegal in 1950s England Vera sees herself as simply helping women in need and always does so with a smile and kind words of encouragement. When the authorities finally find her out Vera's world and family life rapidly unravel. All Or Nothing (2002): In a crowded South London apartment building Penny a working mom struggles to keep her dejected daughter her lazy son and her disillusioned partner on the right path. But when tragedy befalls her loved ones she finds that support comes from the most unexpected places...and brings the most surprising results. Topsy Turvy (1999): The egos. The battles. The words. The music. The women. The scandals. This is the delightfully entertaining story about the musical team of Gilbert and Sullivan and the making of one of their most famous collaborations The Mikado. Career Girls (1997): Former college flatmates Annie and Hannah decide to meet up in London for the weekend. Naturally both girls have changed since their student days of some 10 years earlier. As they talk go flat-hunting get drunk and bump into numerous people from their past the girls start to reminisce upon their earlier friendship. Secrets And Lies (1996): After her adoptive parents die a young black woman seeks out her natural birth mother only to discover her mother is white. Equally shocked to learn the daughter she gave up for adoption is black Cynthia insists it's a mistake. But she soon realizes it's true and when she springs her newfound daughter on the rest of the family the resulting chaos leads to a series of Secrets and Lies being revealed at last. Naked (1993): David Thewlis stars as Johnny a charming eloquent and relentlessly vicious drifter in London. Rejecting all those who would care for him the volcanic Johnny hurls himslef into a nocturnal odyssey through the city colliding with a succession of the desperate and the dispossessed. Life Is Sweet (1990): The remarkable story of an unremarkable British family told in the classic tragi-comedy style that is uniquely Mike Leigh's. High Hopes (1988): Old-school socialist Cyril gets exasperated with his Tory-voting mum her yuppie neighbours and his nouveau-riche sister. Meantime (1984): Meantime centres on the Pollacks - Mavis Frank and their [show more]
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A collection of ten Mike Leigh feature films. In his debut, 'Bleak Moments' (1971), a sherry-sipping typist, a tongue-tied schoolteacher and a would-be pop star are among the sad cases trapped in suburban South London. 'Meantime' (1983) is set in East London during the early 1980s and the peak of unemployment in Thatcher's Britain. 'High Hopes' (1988) is Leigh's class struggle comedy of manners whilst his acclaimed social comedy, 'Life is Sweet' (1990), is set in a lower-middle class household in a London suburb and 'Naked' (1993) is a violent and disturbing look at the milieu inhabited by London's homeless. In the bittersweet comedy 'Secrets and Lies' (1996), a young black Londoner is surprised to discover, after the death of her adoptive parents, that her birth mother is in fact a white single-mum. 'Career Girls' (1997) explores the changing face of friendship as times goes by. 'Topsy Turvy' (1999) is a comic look at one of light opera's most famous creative partnerships - the writing team of William Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. 'All or Nothing' (2002) is a return to gritty drama starring Timothy Spall. Finally, 'Vera Drake' (2004) stars Imelda Staunton as a woman devoted completely to her working class family, who secretly visits women with unwanted pregnancies, helping them induce miscarriage.
This ten film collection serves as a great entry point into the work of acclaimed British filmmaker, Mike Leigh and covers many of his seminal works. Films include: NAKED, BLEAK MOMENTS, CAREER GIRLS, SECRETS AND LIES, VERA DRAKE, TOPSY TURVY, ALL OR NOTHING, LIFE IS SWEET, HIGH HOPES and MEANTIME.
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