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High Hopes

01/13/1989

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1hr 48min

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Comedy

,Drama

STORY

Slice-of-life look at a sweet working-class couple in London, Shirley and Cyril, his mother, who's aging quickly and becoming forgetful, mum's ghastly upper-middle-class neighbors, and Cyril's pretentious sister and philandering husband. Shirley wants a baby, but Cyril, who reads Marx and wants the world to be perfect, is reluctant. Cyril's mum locks herself out and must ask her snooty neighbors for help. Then Cyril's sister Valerie stages a surprise party for mum's 70th birthday, a disaster from start to finish. Shirley holds things together, and she and Cyril may put aside her Dutch cap after all.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Phil Davis
  • Ruth Sheen
  • Edna Doré
  • Philip Jackson
  • Heather Tobias

    Directors

  • Mike Leigh
  • Howard Arundel
  • Heather Storr
  • Marc Munden

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • British Screen Productions
  • Portman Productions
  • Film4 Productions

    Production Countries

  • United Kingdom

LANGUAGES

  • English

Cast

Phil Davis

Cyril Bender

Ruth Sheen

Shirley

Edna Doré

Mrs Bender

Philip Jackson

Martin Burke

Heather Tobias

Valerie

Lesley Manville

Lætitia Boothe-Brain

David Bamber

Rupert Boothe-Brain

Cheryl Prime

Martin's Girlfriend

Judith Scott

Suzi

Jason Watkins

Wayne

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