High Hopes (1989)
Overview
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.
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Additional Info
Budget | $0.00 |
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Revenue | $1,192,322.00 |
Original Language | en |
Popularity | 6.507 |
Directed By
Mike Leigh
Crew
Mike Leigh
Mike Leigh
Steve Wheeler
Roger Pratt
Tom Donald
Simon Fulford
Graham Martyr
John Etherington
Roger Pratt
George Richards
Robin Heinson
Lucy Bristow
Peter Murphy
Malcolm Roberts
Mike D'Silva
Pat Howell
Anthony Black
Peter Joly
John Paul Chapple
Vernon Connolly
Colin Smith
Paul Newson
Graham Broadbent
Perry Bell
Richard Booz
David Appleby
Miri Ben-Schlomo
Heather Storr
Caroline Hill
Sue Hayes
Sue Whatmough
Eric Strange
Howard Arundel
Chris Streeter
Claudine Aidenbaum
Dave Pearce
Barry Arnold
John Sivers
Andrew Rothschild
Shirley Spriggs
Micky Moynihan
David Carrigan
Bob Wilcox
Colin Brooks
Billy McCarthy
Andrew McClelland
Steve Evans
Debbie Scott
Dom Shaw
Britt Harrison
Peter Lamb
Les Benson
Peter Maxwell
Marc Munden
Ted Read
Barry Read
Tony Rubini
Frank O'Connor
Maddy Hall
Chris Allies
Andrew Dickson
Diana Charnley
Lindy Hemming
Jon Gregory
Simon Channing Williams
Victor Glynn
Morag Ross
TOP 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
Diane-Louise Jordan
Chemist Shop Assistant
Linda Beckett
Receptionist
Ali
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