![]() |
High Hopes (1988)Synopsis:
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.
Resource Links:
|
|
|
![]() |
A poor farmer is obsessed with finding gold on his land supposedly buried by his grandfather. To find it he convenien...
|
![]() |
On a subway train, a man announces that he's looking for someone who might be interested in him; the usual dating met...
|
![]() |
Angel is a selfish, abusive, morally bankrupt man who hangs out as his local bar, berating the other patrons. One day...
|
![]() |
A storyteller in a labyrinth tells his dog the stories of Perseus and Medusa, Icarus and Daedalus, Theseus and the Mi...
|






