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High Hopes (1988)  link to High Hopes on IMDb  

Number: 671

poster High Hopes

IMDb Rating:
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7.6/10 (3258 votes)

Country: UK, 108 minutes

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Comedy, Drama

Director(s):

Video Codec: Unknown

Storyline:
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.

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Cast:

photo Phil Davis Phil Davis Cyril
photo Ruth Sheen Ruth Sheen Shirley
photo Philip Jackson Philip Jackson Martin
photo Lesley Manville Lesley Manville Lætitia
photo David Bamber David Bamber Rupert

Medium: Digital Copy,

Location: F:\Films\High Hopes\High Hopes.mkv

Loaned: No

Aspect ratio: 1.85:1