High Hopes
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A working-class London couple fights over children, yuppie gentrification, and the approaching indignity of his mother's seventieth birthday.
Why watch: Leigh improvised the entire script with his cast. A devastating portrait of Thatcher-era class division.
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Cast
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
David Bamber as Rupert Boothe-Brain
Cheryl Prime as Martin's Girlfriend
Judith Scott as Suzi
Jason Watkins as Wayne
Diane-Louise Jordan as Chemist Shop Assistant
Linda Beckett as Receptionist
Ali as Baby
Crew
Mike Leigh — Director
Mike Leigh — Writer
Tom Donald — Executive Producer
Simon Channing Williams — Producer
Victor Glynn — Producer
Roger Pratt — Director of Photography
Jon Gregory — Editor
Andrew Rothschild — Art Direction
Diana Charnley — Production Design
Lindy Hemming — Costume Design
Andrew Dickson — Original Music Composer
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