High Hopes (1989)

Comedy
Drama

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. Shirley wants a baby, but Cyril, who reads Marx and wants the world to be perfect, is reluctant. Cyril's mum locks herself out and must ask her snooty neighbors for help. Then Cyril's sister Valerie stages a surprise party for mum's 70th birthday, a disaster from start to finish. Shirley holds things together, and she and Cyril may put aside her Dutch cap after all.

Cast

Cyril Bender
Shirley
Chemist Shop Assistant
Receptionist
Baby
Mrs Bender
Martin Burke
Lætitia Boothe-Brain
Rupert Boothe-Brain
Martin's Girlfriend

Crew

Director
Production Design
Costume Design
Makeup Artist
Director of Photography
Executive Producer
Camera Operator
Focus Puller
Clapper Loader
Sound Mixer
Boom Operator
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Art Direction
Construction Buyer
Wardrobe Supervisor
Wardrobe Assistant
First Assistant Editor
Assistant Editor
Sound Editor
Assistant Sound Editor
Title Designer
Script Supervisor
Production Manager
Unit Manager
Location Manager
First Assistant Director
Second Assistant Director
Third Assistant Director
Assistant Director
Casting Director
Production Coordinator
Producer's Assistant
Production Executive
Production Runner
Best Boy Lighting Technician
Generator Operator
Electrician
Construction Manager
Property Master
Dressing Prop
Standby Property Master
Standby Painter
Standby Carpenter
Standby Rigger
Camera Trainee
Sound Assistant
Accounting Supervisor
Production Accountant
Accountant
Transportation Captain
Still Photographer
Still Photographer
Standby Property Master
Original Music Composer