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High Hopes

High Hopes (1989)

PG
02/24/1989 (US)
01h 48m

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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Phil Davis

Phil Davis

Cyril Bender

Ruth Sheen

Ruth Sheen

Shirley

Edna Doré

Edna Doré

Mrs Bender

Philip Jackson

Philip Jackson

Martin Burke

Lesley Manville

Lesley Manville

Lætitia Boothe-Brain

David Bamber

David Bamber

Rupert Boothe-Brain

CP

Cheryl Prime

Martin's Girlfriend

Media

High Hopes (1988) Trailer
1988 High Hopes  Official Trailer 1  British Screen Productions

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