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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 ...
- £1.28 million
- Andrew Dickson
- 24 September 1988
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.
- (5.6K)
- Comedy, Drama
- Mike Leigh
- 1989-02-26
High Hopes (1988) High Hopes (1988) View more photos Movie Info Synopsis An old London widow's (Edna Doré) daughter is a yuppie, but her son (Philip Davis) and his girlfriend (Ruth Sheen) are ...
- (13)
- Mike Leigh
- R
- Philip Davis
The characters in “High Hopes” exist on either side of the great divide in Margaret Thatcher's England, between the new yuppies and the die-hard socialists. Cyril and Shirley, quasi-hippie survivors of the 1970s, live in comfortable poverty in a small flat, supported by Cyril's earnings as a motorcyle messenger. Cyril's sister, Valerie, lives in an upscale neighborhood surrounded by Modern ...
Directed by Mike Leigh • 1988 • United Kingdom. Starring Phil Davis, Ruth Sheen, Edna Doré. True to its title, this slice-of-life satire is one of director Mike Leigh’s warmest and most optimistic films—though it’s still laced with more than a touch of bittersweet melancholy. Focusing on counterculture couple Cyril (Phil Davis) and ...
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High Hopes tells the story of Cyril (Philip Davis) and Shirley (Ruth Sheen), a young leftist couple living sparsely but remain hopeful despite the lack of opportunity ever knocking at their door. Cyril’s sister, Valerie (Heather Tobias), is married to Martin (Philip Jackson) and the two of them aspire to be Yuppies, a young upwardly mobile ...
Synopsis. 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.
- 102 min
