Genres
Production Companies
Portman Productions
Film4 Productions
High Hopes
Overview
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.
Key Crew
Director: Mike Leigh
Writer: Mike Leigh
Director of Photography: Roger Pratt
Producer: Simon Channing Williams, Victor Glynn
Top Cast
Videos
High Hopes (1988) Trailer
1988 High Hopes Official Trailer 1 British Screen Productions
