All Or Nothing

Synopsis:

In the footsteps of his Oscar-nominated effort Topsy Turvy, Mike Leigh delivers yet another honest albeit bittersweet take on London's modern, working class. This time, Leigh's camera follows the constipated lives of a group of dysfunctional families whose hopes of a better future are as good as flushed down the toilet.

Phil and Penny are malcontents scraping life's urinals with their dead-end jobs. Their children are porky little things destined for a lonely childhood. The girl-next-door has a libido that dwarfs the Eiffel Tower. It's no surprise then, that her folks are drunks. But even clouds as dark as these have a silver lining, and a tiny revelation awaits to lift them all out of the drudgery of their sorry lives.

All Or Nothing begins the quest to give meaning to the mundane.

Casts: Timothy Spall, Lesley Manville

Duration : 122 minutes