All or Nothing (2002)

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   jacktrewin wrote:

   the scene with the french woman was so pointless and should have been cut. she was so annoying.

   
   
   If you think there are scenes in Mike Leigh's films that don't pertain to the plot, then I don't know what to tell you. 9 years 1 month ago
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   Siskoid

   Sally Hawkins and James Corden both look like kids in All or Nothing, a tragi-comic film from Mike Leigh that is altogether more tragi than comic. We follow three households living in the same council estate, each with grown up kids still living at home. Leigh's ability to dramatize real people who would not normally be the subject of a film is fully engage here, with economic and psychological depression mixing. There is a definite preference for the Timothy Spall/Lesley Manville relationship, and they're the ones that are gonna make you cry as tragedy changes their outlook on life, and I at first resented the fact that other characters seemed to fade from view. But thinking back, each of their stories did "arc" (just not sure about Allison Garland's character), and for the ones exposed as "leads", there is a sense of learning a lesson, maturing, coming out of the film changed for the better. Because as dank and depressing as most of the film is, it does end on a hopeful note. The characters scrape the bottom before coming back up. How Leigh continues to massage these things into shape through improvisation is anybody's guess. 3 years 9 months ago
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   ryanhogan1990

   Manville and Spall do some bonkers work in this movie - found the final scenes between them incredibly cathartic and touching. Definitely underrated. 6 years 6 months ago

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