High Hopes

feature film, 1988

DIRECTED BY: Mike Leigh


CAST:
Philip Davis,
Ruth Sheen,
Edna Dore

SCRIPT:
Mike Leigh

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Roger Pratt

Synopsis:
A story about delivery boy Cyril with Bolshevik inclinations and his girlfriend Shirley. They take care of Shirley’s old and senile mother, facing the invasion of members of higher social classes… Mike Leigh’s satirical commentary on social and class changes that occurred in London in the late 1980s, full of authentic English humor.

color, 110 min