IMDb
7.8 /10
1k votes


Drama · Comedy · 1992 · 26 min
Jim Broadbent wrote and starred in this short film directed by none other than Mike Leigh. As a member of the landed gentry, the 23rd Earl of Leete has a duty to maintain and expand his lands. Shot in the style and manner of a BBC documentary, Broadbent tells his family history to the crew, who slowly come to realise - as do we - that things are not what they seem.
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Thin Man Films
Channel 4 Television

IMDb
7.8 /10
1k votes
Rotten Tomatoes
The tomato isn't ripe
Metacritic took the day off
TMDB
7.4 /10
33 votes
Letterboxd
8.0 /10
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Weighted average
7.7/10
A Sense of History (Mike Leigh, 1992)· Clip
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