High Hopes

• Rated 7.0 out of 10
• Movie
• 1989
• 1h 48m
• Comedy
• Drama

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.

Director

Mike Leigh

Starring

Phil Davis, Ruth Sheen, Edna Doré, Philip Jackson