Hard Truths, Mike ... too Leigh, who has spoken of the family “screaming matches” he endured as a boy growing up in a working-class suburb of Manchester and in an observant Jewish home ...

Michael "Mike" Leigh, OBE (born 20 February 1943 ... His well-known films include Life is Sweet (1990), the comedy-drama Career Girls (1997), the Gilbert and Sullivan biopic Topsy Turvy (1999 ...