High Hopes(1989)
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.
Movie: High Hopes
Top 10 Billed Cast
Cyril Bender
Shirley
Mrs Bender
Martin Burke
Valerie
Lætitia Boothe-Brain
Rupert Boothe-Brain
Wayne
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Video: 1988 High Hopes Official Trailer 1 British Screen Productions
1988 High Hopes Official Trailer 1 British Screen Productions
High Hopes (1988) Trailer
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