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High Hopes
Running Time: 110 min.
MPAA Rating: PG
Box Office: / Domestic gross: $1,192,000
Produced By: / British Screen / Film Four International / Portman Productions / Skouras Pictures
Released: February 24, 1989 (USA)

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 h... Full Summary >>

Cast and Crew: Philip Davis (Cyril Bender) Ruth Sheen (Shirley) Edna Doré (Mrs. Bender) Philip Jackson (Martin Burke) All Cast & Crew >> 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 mobi ... Continue >>

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