High Hopes (1988)
- Directed by
- Mike Leigh
- Genre
- comedy film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1h 52m
- Rated
- PG
- Rating
- 7.0 of 10 from 101 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A working-class couple in 1980s London navigate their lives and relationships. The story follows Cyril, a bike courier, and Shirley, a gardener, as they deal with their family and neighbors. It shows the social and personal tensions between different ways of living and thinking.
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What happens
High Hopes is a 1988 British comedy drama film directed by Mike Leigh, focusing on an extended working-class family living in King's Cross, London, and elsewhere. The film primarily examines Cyril (Philip Davis) and Shirley (Ruth Sheen), a motor-cycle courier and his girlfriend, a gardener, along with their friends, neighbours, and Cyril's mother and sister. Despite staying true to Leigh's down-at-the-heel, realist style, the film is ultimately a social comedy concerning culture clashes between different classes and belief systems. According to the critic Michael Coveney', "As in Meantime, High Hopes contrasts the economic and spiritual conditions of siblings. And in developing some of the themes in Babies Grow Old and Grown-Ups, it presents a brilliantly organised dramatic résumé of attitudes towards parturition and old age." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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