High Hopes Poster

High Hopes

Starring: Phil Davis, Ruth Sheen, Edna Doré, Philip Jackson, Heather Tobias

Writer: Mike Leigh

Release Date:
January 13, 1989
Ratings:
7.1 / 10
Director:
Mike Leigh
Companies:
British Screen Productions

Overview

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.