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High Hopes (1988)
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.
Updated May 12 2020
Cast
David Bamber
Rupert Boothe-Braine
Phil Davis
Cyril Bender
Ruth Sheen
Shirley
Jason Watkins
Wayne
Lesley Manville
Laetitia Boothe-Brain
Edna Doré
Mrs. Bender
Linda Beckett
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Crew
Mike Leigh
Director
