Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, Andy is a cook who forever puts off home remodeling projects, Natalie is a plumber and Nicola is jobless. This film is about how they interact and play out family, conflict and love.

Working with key collaborators Alison Steadman (Abigail’s Party), Jim Broadbent (Another Year) and Timothy Spall (Mr. Turner), Britain’s Mike Leigh kicked off the 1990s with this endearingly oddball, tragicomic family drama: a depiction London’s working class both upbeat and ultimately optimistic.