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A by-word for death by embarrassment. When Beverly invites a few friends and neighbours round for drinks and nibbles, the scene is set for the best of British mayhem. Dare you decline? Our Price: £6.99 DVD | Available | Save £9.00 (56%)
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A moving, absorbing and darkly comic slice of life from award-winning director Mike Leigh. Taking place over the course of a weekend and set amongst the run-down surroundings of a south London housing estate, the film paints a vivid portrait of the ... Our Price: £11.99 DVD | Available | Save £1.00 (7%)
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Leigh's first feature, in which a woman cares for her retarded sister. Described by many as a masterpiece, this aptly-titled film takes inarticulacy and the tentative attempts at communication of trapped people as one of its subjects. It is perhaps ... Our Price: £13.99 DVD | Available | Save £2.00 (12%)
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Lynda Steadman and Katrin Cartlidges two-hander in which undergraduate girlfriends pick up where they left off was, for Leigh, unfairly sidelined upon release. It remains a quiet masterpiece. Our Price: £13.99 DVD | In Stock | Save £2.00 (12%)
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Mike Leigh's infectiously entertaining comedy about Poppy, a North London primary school teacher with a bright outlook on life. She loves her job, she loves her friends, and she loves her freedom. The film follows her over a few weeks one spring as... Our Price: £14.99 DVD | Released 18th Aug | Save £5.00 (25%)
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Wayne left home because of an argument about pies. Cyril would like to machine gun the Royal family. Rupert and Laetitia Boothe-Brain play yuppie sex games, while deep in suburbia Valerie fails to arouse her husband Martin with a suggestion that he ... Our Price: £13.49 DVD | Available | Save £1.50 (10%)
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Mike Leigh's award-winning drama is set in 1950s London. Imelda Staunton delivers an acclaimed performance as Vera, who cleans houses but also has a sideline in helping women end their unwanted pregnancies. When the authorities catch up with her, ... Director: Mike Leigh Our Price: £15.99
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Leigh's working class characters never have easy lives, but their difficulties are seen through comedy which makes them bearable. Here, Steadman's Wendy keeps her pecker up to support her family through their individual, very 1990s despair. Horrocks... Our Price: £13.99 DVD | Available | Save £2.00 (12%)
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In one of the most uncompromising British films of the post-war period, Mike Leigh focuses on a family of acerbic, terminally unemployed working-class Brits languishing in their East End council house. Frank and Mavis are the endlessly bickering pa... Our Price: £6.99 DVD | Available | Save £3.00 (30%)
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10 films from Mike Leigh, including his masterpiece, Naked and his first film, Bleak Moments, available on DVD for the first time. Comprises: Vera Drake (2004) London, 1950: Vera Drake (Imelda Staunton) lives with her husband Stan (Phil Davis... Our Price: £54.49 DVD | In Stock | Save £5.50 (9%)
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Mike Leigh’s controversial epic stars David Thewlis as a deeply frustrated idealist. Disappointed with the material world at the end of the last century, and the impending millennial apocalypse, Johnny is aggressive and confrontational, but also elo... Our Price: £11.99 DVD | Released 18th Aug | Save £4.00 (25%)
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A north London family, atomised by history, plans to meet up for Roxanne's 21st. Meanwhile, Hortense searches the public records for her mother's identity. Now and again a British film comes along which speaks to its generation in terms clear and ur... Our Price: £15.99 DVD | Available | Save £4.00 (20%)
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A portrait of the musical comedy duo, W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan and their era, with the strained artistic partnership briefly resolved in creating The Mikado. In this detailed, in-depth portrait of Victorian life in all its lavishness and se... Our Price: £6.49 DVD | Available | Save £6.50 (50%)
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