High Hopes
- 1988 film
Bleak comedy-drama about London life across the social spectrum. By Mike Leigh. Also features Phil Davis, Ruth Sheen, Edna Doré, Philip Jackson, Heather Tobias and more.
High Hopes - Remastered & Restored
Mike Leigh writes and directs this class struggle comedy drama which portrays the intertwined lives of an extended working class family in London during the Thatcher years.
The story follows left-wing bike messenger Cyril Bender (Philip Davis), his girlfriend Shirley (Ruth Sheen) and Cyril's conservative mother (Edna Dore), who lives in the last council house on her street next to the appallingly upper class Boothe-Braines (Lesley Manville and David Bamber).
Cyril's consumerist sister Valerie (Heather Tobias) and her car salesman husband Martin (Philip Jackson) join the family to throw a surprise 70th birthday party for Mrs. Bender but, despite their best intentions, the event descends into disaster.
First released: Monday 13th April 2015
- Released: Monday 6th April 2020
- Distributor: Spirit Entertainment
- Region: B
- Discs: 1
- Minutes: 112
- Subtitles: English
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- Distributor: 4DVD
- Region: 2
- Discs: 1
- Minutes: 116
- Subtitles: English
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- Distributor: 4DVD
- Region: B
- Discs: 1
- Minutes: 116
- Subtitles: English
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