High Hopes

Synopsis

Working-class couple Shirley and Cyril are in conflict over whether they should have children, their problems with 'yuppies' moving into the neighbourhood and outpricing them, and the advent of Cyril's ageing mother's seventieth birthday.

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When & where

Streaming on

• Criterion Channel↗

Top of the call sheet

• 
  Phil Davis
  as Cyril Bender
• 
  Ruth Sheen
  as Shirley
• 
  Edna Doré
  as Mrs Bender
• 
  Philip Jackson
  as Martin Burke
• 
  Heather Tobias
  as Valerie
• 
  Lesley Manville
  as Lætitia Boothe-Brain

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