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High Hopes

High Hopes

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 13, 1989

Runtime

1h 48m

Genres

Comedy, Drama

User Score

71%

Original Title

High Hopes

Production Companies

British Screen Productions, Portman Productions, Film4 Productions

Director

Mike Leigh

Revenue

$1,192,322

Description

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.