High Hopes 1989

7.056 / 10   81 vote(s)
PG
Comedy Drama

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.

Release Date 1989-01-13
Runtime 1h 48m
Directors Mike Leigh, Roger Pratt, Howard Arundel, Marc Munden, David Carrigan, Dom Shaw, Sue Whatmough
Producers Simon Channing Williams, Victor Glynn, Tom Donald, Claudine Aidenbaum
Writer Mike Leigh