High Hopes (1988) on Netflix
In King's Cross, London, Cyril, a courier who reads Marx, and Shirley, a gardener, are a couple. Shirley wants a baby; Cyril hesitates. Wealthier newcomers are moving into their neighborhood.
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Plot summary
Shirley, a gardener, and Cyril, a motorcycle courier, share a life in King's Cross, London. Cyril reads Marx and would like the world set right. They disagree about having a child: Shirley wants one, while Cyril is reluctant. Cyril's elderly mother, Mrs. Bender, is aging and becoming forgetful, and her neighborhood is filling with moneyed newcomers. Her neighbors Laetitia and Rupert Boothe-Braine are upper-middle-class. Cyril's sister Valerie is newly rich. A country traveler who keeps failing to get home stays with the couple, who nick him E.T. Shirley grows cacti, one of them named after Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, whom she and Cyril criticize.
Cast
- Cheryl Primeas Martin's Girl Friend
- Judith Scottas Suzi
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about High Hopes (1988)
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- When Mike Leigh sought financial backing for High Hopes he had no finished scripts, preferring to let hired actors build the dialogue in improv sessions, so many potential backers were reluctant to support his work.
