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High Hopes

  • Movie
  • 1989
  • PG
  • 1h 48m

Directed by Mike Leigh

7.0

TMDB audience rating
7.0 out of 10 from 103 votes

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Overview

Working-class couple Shirley and Cyril are in conflict over whether they should have children, their problems with 'yuppies' moving into the neighbourhood and outpricing them, and the advent of Cyril's ageing mother's seventieth birthday.

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Cast and crew

  • Phil Davis

    Phil DavisCyril Bender

  • Ruth Sheen

    Ruth SheenShirley

  • Edna Doré

    Edna DoréMrs Bender

  • Philip Jackson

    Philip JacksonMartin Burke

  • Heather Tobias

    Heather TobiasValerie

  • Lesley Manville

    Lesley ManvilleLætitia Boothe-Brain

  • David Bamber

    David BamberRupert Boothe-Brain

  • Cheryl PrimeMartin's Girlfriend

  • Judith ScottSuzi

  • Jason Watkins

    Jason WatkinsWayne

  • Diane-Louise Jordan

    Diane-Louise JordanChemist Shop Assistant

  • Linda Beckett

    Linda BeckettReceptionist

  • AliBaby

Director
Mike Leigh
Writer
Mike Leigh
Music
Andrew Dickson
Cinematography
Roger Pratt