High Hopes (1989)

1h 48m
Running Time

January 13, 1989
Release Date

High Hopes (1989)

1h 48m
Running Time

January 13, 1989
Release Date

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Film4 Productions
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Plot.

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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Cast & Crew.

Peter Joly

Peter Joly

Sound Editor

Ted Read

Ted Read

Gaffer

Pat Howell

Pat Howell

Production Accountant

Claudine Aidenbaum

Claudine Aidenbaum

Producer's Assistant

Maddy Hall

Maddy Hall

Other

Bob Wilcox

Bob Wilcox

Generator Operator

Dave Pearce

Dave Pearce

Construction Manager

David Carrigan

David Carrigan

Third Assistant Director

Colin Brooks

Colin Brooks

Painter

Colin Smith

Colin Smith

Other

Barry Read

Barry Read

Electrician

Tony Rubini

Tony Rubini

Standby Rigger

David Appleby

David Appleby

Still Photographer

Frank O'Connor

Frank O'Connor

Still Photographer

Dom Shaw

Dom Shaw

Assistant Director

Peter Lamb

Peter Lamb

Best Boy Lighting Technician

Details.

Release Date
January 13, 1989

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 48m

Content Rating
PG

Box Office
$1,192,322

Filming Locations
Lloyd's building, United Kingdom

Genres

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This Movie Is About.

london england
working class
class differences
family
elderly lady

Wiki.

High Hopes is a 1988 comedy-drama film directed by Mike Leigh, focusing on an extended working-class family living in King's Cross, London, and elsewhere.

The film primarily examines Cyril (Philip Davis) and Shirley (Ruth Sheen), a motor-cycle courier and his girlfriend, along with their friends, neighbours, and Cyril's mother and sister.

Despite staying true to Leigh's down-at-the-heel, realist style, the film is ultimately a social comedy concerning culture clashes between different classes and belief systems. According to the critic Michael Coveney', "As in Meantime, High Hopes contrasts the economic and spiritual conditions of siblings. And in developing some of the themes in Babies Grow Old and Grown-Ups, it presents a brilliantly organised dramatic résumé of attitudes towards parturition and old age."

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