Name: High Hopes
Director: Mike Leigh
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 1989-01-13
Duration: 108 min
Rating: 7.1
Cast: Phil Davis, Ruth Sheen, Edna Doré, Philip Jackson, Heather Tobias

High Hopes

★ 7.1 /10 (97) • 1989 • 1h 48m

Comedy Drama

Director Mike Leigh

Screenplay Mike Leigh

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.