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High Hopes
High Hopes
7.8
/10
569 Ratings

HIGH HOPES

Directed by Mike Leigh
United Kingdom, 1988
Comedy, Drama

Synopsis

Slice-of-life look at a sweet working-class couple in London, Shirley and Cyril, his mother, who’s aging quickly and becoming forgetful, mum’s ghastly upper-middle-class neighbors, and Cyril’s pretentious sister and philandering husband.

Synopsis

Slice-of-life look at a sweet working-class couple in London, Shirley and Cyril, his mother, who’s aging quickly and becoming forgetful, mum’s ghastly upper-middle-class neighbors, and Cyril’s pretentious sister and philandering husband.