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