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Film Info

UK 1988 | 108 min. Director: Mike Leigh
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Project / Host

European Film Awards

High Hopes

Synopsis

Set in and around King's Cross, the City, and London's suburbs, in the early weeks of 1988, HIGH HOPES examines the contrasting lives and personalities of an assortment of characters: Cyril, a despatch rider, and his girlfriend Shirley; Cyril's sister, Valerie, and her husband Martin; Cyril and Valerie's widowed mother, Mrs Bender; and Mrs Bender's upwardly-mobile next door neighbours, Laetitia and Rupert. Their various paths cross first when Mrs Bender finds herself locked out of her house and then again, several weeks later, when Valerie arranges a surprise party for Mrs Bender's seventieth birthday. By turns sad and comic, HIGH HOPES ends on a note of quiet optimism.

Cast & Crew

Cast & Crew

Mike Leigh
 Simon Channing-Williams, Victor Clynn
 Mike Leigh
 David Bamber (Rupert), Philip Jackson (Martin), Philip Davies (Cyril), Edna Doré (Mrs Bender), Ruth Sheen (Shirley)
 Andrew Dickson
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