High Hopes
1988 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom
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.
Direction Mike Leigh
Cast Philip Davis · Ruth Sheen · Edna Doré · Philip Jackson · Heather Tobias · Lesley Manville · David Bamber · Jason Watkins · Judith Scott · Cheryl Prime · Diane-Louise Jordan · Linda Beckett
Soundtrack Andrew Dickson
Screenplay Mike Leigh
Cinematography Roger Pratt
Original title High Hopes
7.0
447 votes (FilmAffinity)
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