High Hopes

1989 Rated PG · ⭐ 7.2 · Votes: 61

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.