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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.
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.
- (5.8K)
- Comedy, Drama
- Mike Leigh
- 1989-02-26
An old London widow's (Edna Doré) daughter is a yuppie, but her son (Philip Davis) and his girlfriend (Ruth Sheen) are Marxists.
- (13)
- Mike Leigh
- R
- Philip Davis
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 ...
Running time: 1h 52m. Genre: Comedy, Drama. In this early film, award-winning director Mike Leigh uses a loose, open-ended narrative structure to unsettle cinematic expectations and create a...
- Mike Leigh
- Jason Watkins, Edna Doré, Heather Tobias
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.
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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 ...
