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High Hopes is a 1988 British 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 ...
Feb 26, 1989 · High Hopes: Directed by Mike Leigh. With Phil Davis, Ruth Sheen, Edna Doré, Philip Jackson. The life of a working class couple living in London and their complicated relationships with other members of the family.
Dec 31, 2014 · Focusing on counterculture couple Cyril (Phil Davis) and Shirley (Ruth Sheen)—a pair of generous, pot-smoking Marxists wrestling with the decision of whether or not to have a baby—and their materialistic, middle-class extended family, High Hopes offers an at once affectionate and slyly critical portrait of generational, social, and class ...
Jan 16, 2020 Full Review Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times High Hopes is an alive and challenging film, one that throws our own assumptions and evasions back at us.
High Hopes (1988) Plot. Showing all 3 items. Jump to: Summaries (3) The life of a working class couple living in London and their complicated relationships with other members of the family. The stories of a diverse group of Londoners is presented, they thrown together out of circumstance.
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