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High Hopes
70.42%
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January 13, 1989
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Comedy, Drama
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.
Featured Crew
Mike Leigh
Director
Mike Leigh
Writer
Simon Channing Williams
Producer
Cast
![Phil Davis](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300//sNJ9nFWxpGVmQYvq7rU9xqryu0F.jpg)
Phil Davis
Cyril Bender
![Ruth Sheen](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300//tchnF80OCEiq3JXpGI4z7eMla8W.jpg)
Ruth Sheen
Shirley
![Edna Doré](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300//460Kg55xkzmtPfS0bnZIf9HMQDq.jpg)
Edna Doré
Mrs Bender
![Philip Jackson](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300//eC7p4UAj6xB4TtQ4cPcIJtubPnw.jpg)
Philip Jackson
Martin Burke
![Heather Tobias](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300//gtRvo7JZtVNlIk4SBa0r4TypD69.jpg)
Heather Tobias
Valerie