Hard Labour (film) where the Leighs had lived in Cavendish Road." "The polarity between the worlds of Mrs Stone and the lady who cleans her house (the central figure, Mrs Thornley, the Catholic house-cleaner) is icily delineated. In the middle is the new housing estate, where Mrs Thornley's son, Edward, (played by Bernard Hill in his professional début), a car mechanic, lives with his wife Veronica (Alison Steadman)." Hard Labour (film) Hard Labour is a 1973 television film, directed by Mike Leigh and produced by Tony Garnett which aired as part of the BBC anthology series "Play for Today". The film stars Liz
Alison Chernick Alison Chernick Alison Chernick is a New York based writer/director and filmmaker. Chernick's first documentary was on contemporary artist Jeff Koons titled, "The Jeff Koons Show" (2005). Her second feature-length documentary on artist Matthew Barney, titled "Matthew Barney No Restraint", premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in 2006 and was acquired for theatrical distribution by IFC and The Weinstein Company. She founded the production company Voyeur Films in 2006. "Diagram of an Artist: Roy Lichtenstein" was commissioned by the Tate Modern for its 2013 exhibition "Lichtenstein: A Retrospective". "The Artist is Absent", a short film on designer/artist Martin Margiela, premiered