All or Nothing (film)
All or Nothing | |
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Directed by | Mike Leigh |
Written by | Mike Leigh |
Produced by | Simon Channing Williams |
Starring | Timothy Spall Lesley Manville |
Edited by | Lesley Walker |
Music by | Andrew Dickson |
Production companies | |
Distributed by | UGC Films UK |
Release dates |
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Running time | 128 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Budget | $9 million |
Box office | $2.8 million[1] |
All or Nothing is a 2002 British drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh and starring Timothy Spall and Lesley Manville. Like much of Leigh's work, the film is set in present-day London, and depicts three working-class families and their everyday lives.
Synopsis
The film begins with a day nearing its end. Rachel, the daughter in the first family, is shown working in a nursing home. Phil, her father, is seen driving people around in his
Rory is a lazy, obese, ill-mannered teenager who neither goes to school nor has a job. Complications with his obesity arise when after an altercation with a gang of youths playing
The second family consists of Maureen, another cashier at Safeway, and her daughter Donna, a waitress at a cafe. Donna becomes pregnant by her boyfriend Jason despite being on the pill, and this leads to a heated argument among the three characters.
The third family consists of Ron, who also drives a minicab, his unemployed teenage daughter Samantha, and his wife Carol, an unemployed alcoholic. Samantha shows interest in both Jason and Craig, a taciturn young man who seems to stalk her.
Cast
- Timothy Spall as Phil
- Lesley Manville as Penny
- James Corden as Rory
- Alison Garland as Rachel
- Ruth Sheen as Maureen
- Marion Bailey as Carol
- Paul Jesson as Ron
- Sam Kelly as Sid
- Kathryn Hunter as Cécile
- Sally Hawkins as Samantha
- Helen Coker as Donna
- Daniel Mays as Jason
- Ben Crompton as Craig
- Robert Wilfort as Dr. Simon Griffith
- Gary McDonald as Neville
- Dorothy Atkinson as A Silent Passenger
- Alan Williams as Drunk
Film locations
Reception
It was well received by critics and audiences alike, receiving an 82% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 92 reviews, with an average rating of 7.1/10. The critical consensus states that "All or Nothing's depiction of the working-class can be depressingly bleak, but the performances are wonderfully true to life."[3] It has a 72/100 average on Metacritic.[4] The film holds an average B+ grade on Yahoo! Movies.
Awards
The film won the
References
- ^ "All or Nothing (2002) - Box Office Mojo". www.boxofficemojo.com.
- ^ Kent Film Office. "Kent Film Office All or Nothing Article".
- ^ "All or Nothing (2002)". Rotten Tomatoes.
- ^ All or Nothing, retrieved 20 February 2020
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: All or Nothing". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 24 October 2009.