High Hopes
Summary:
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 ... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Philip Davis - (Cyril Bender)
Ruth Sheen - (Shirley)
Edna Doré - (Mrs. Bender)
Philip Jackson - (Martin Burke)
Heather Tobias - (Valerie Burke)
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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 ... Continue >>
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