High Hopes

1989
High Hopes
7.4| 1h48m| PG| en| Drama, Comedy
Storyline

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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  • High Hopes Cast
Phil Davis as Cyril Bender
Ruth Sheen as Shirley
Edna Doré as Mrs Bender
Philip Jackson as Martin Burke
Heather Tobias as Valerie
Lesley Manville as Lætitia Boothe-Brain
David Bamber as Rupert Boothe-Brain
Jason Watkins as Wayne
Diane-Louise Jordan as Chemist Shop Assistant