Director in Person Nuts in May, one of Leigh's most popular films, is a hilarious portrait of the seventies counterculture, whose lifestyle codes could both bolster and bludgeon the hapless subscriber. Keith and Candice-Marie, two city dwellers on a back-to-nature trek in Dorset, spend much of their time chewing their nuts 72 times, shunning "the killer whites" (flour, sugar...), and composing politically correct folk ballads. They set up camp, only to find that their nearest neighbor is blissfully unaware of the Country Code. He becomes something of a mystery for that, and eventually, a catalyst for the crack-up. Despite pretense to the contrary, Keith is one of your less relaxed souls in God's world; the world has failed him, and Roger Sloman builds his panicked intensity layer by closely observed layer. (Still, he may be Leigh's most sympathetic portrayal of a social worker, a chronically suspicious species in the films.) Alison Steadman, as Candice-Marie, is more than the perfect foil for Keith's pedantry as her bright-eyed enthusiasm subtly dims, like a guitar just slightly out of tune.