Home Sweet Home (1982)
Three postal workers and their dysfunctional families interact over cups of tea and Sunday dinner.
- Date of release
- 1982-03-16
- TMDB
- 6.3 / 10 (3)
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Genres
- Drama, TV Movie
- Director
- Mike Leigh
- Collection
- Mike Leigh's Play For Today
Casting
- Eric Richard — Stan
- Lorraine Brunning — Tina
- Kay Stonham — Hazel
- Timothy Spall — Gordon
- Su Elliot — June
- Tim Barker — Harold
- Frances Barber — Melody
- Lloyd Peters — Dave
- Sheila Kelley — Janice
- Heidi Laratta — Kelly
- Paul Jesson — Man in Dressing Gown
Interesting facts
Home Sweet Home is a 1982 television film devised and directed by Mike Leigh, for the BBC, 'about postmen, parenthood, social workers and sex.' It was Leigh's second collaboration with Play for Today producer Louis Marks, and cinematographer Remi Adefarasin,, and with composer Carl Davis – the musical score featured a quartet of basses –. It stars Timothy Spall, Eric Richard, Tim Barker, Kay Stonham, Su Elliot, Frances Barber, Sheila Kelley, and Lorraine Brunning. It was first broadcast on 16 March 1982. The film was shot on location in Hitchin, Hertfordshire and has a 90 minutes duration.
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