High Hopes

High Hopes

7.1IMDb Score
Released:1989-01-13
Duration:108 min
Director:Mike Leigh
Actors:Phil Davis, Ruth Sheen, Edna Doré, Philip Jackson, Heather Tobias
Production:British Screen Productions, Portman Productions, Film4 Productions

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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