High Hopes

High Hopes (1989)

TMDb

7.1

13/01/1989 • 1h 48m
original-title

High Hopes

status

Released

production-companies

British Screen Productions

Portman Productions

Film4 Productions

original-language

English

budget

-

revenue

$1,192,322

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.

director
production-countries

United Kingdom

spoken-languages

English

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