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High Hopes

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High Hopes
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PG,1hr 50min
Genre:
Comedy
Release:
1989
Director:
Mike Leigh
Distributor:
BFS Entertainment
Starring:
Philip Davis, Ruth Sheen, Edna Doré  ...more
Synopsis: In this early film, award-winning director Mike Leigh uses a loose, open-ended narrative structure to unsettle cinematic expectations and create a truly inventive and very honest film. High Hopes opens with the arrival of Wayne, a small-town lad in his twenties, in the London metropolis. Completely lost in the hustle and bustle, Wayne asks for directions from a cyclist named Cyril. Unable to assist him, Cyril brings Wayne to his house to examine a map and meet his long-time girlfriend, Shirley, also ... Full Synopsis
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Michael Hastings, AMG Review
After working for nearly two decades almost exclusively in British television, writer/director Mike Leigh asserted himself as a feature film director with this sly, rousing study of various malcontents languishing in Margaret Thatcher's upwardly mobile 1980s London. Leigh's loosely devised film is a series of incidents among a half-dozen or so residents of a London neighborhood, of varying ages, political ... Full Review
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Philip Davis
Cyril Bender
Ruth Sheen
Shirley
Edna Doré
Mrs. Bender
Philip Jackson
Martin Burke
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