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High Hopes (1989) [PG]

Release Date:
January 13, 1989

Original Title:
High Hopes

Genres:
Comedy | Drama

Production Companies:
British Screen Productions
Film4 Productions
Portman Productions

Production Countries:
United Kingdom

Ratings / Certifications:
GB: 15  US: PG 

Runtime: 108

Overview from TheMovieDB

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.

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Production

Accountant:
Mike D'Silva

Accounting Supervisor:
John Sivers

Art Direction:
Andrew Rothschild

Assistant Director:
Dom Shaw

Assistant Editor:
Steve Evans

Assistant Sound Editor:
Paul Newson

Best Boy Lighting Technician:
Peter Lamb

Boom Operator:
George Richards

Camera Operator:
Roger Pratt

Camera Trainee:
Lucy Bristow

Casting Director:
Sue Whatmough

Clapper Loader:
Graham Martyr

Construction Buyer:
Shirley Spriggs

Construction Manager:
Dave Pearce

Costume Design:
Lindy Hemming

Director:
Mike Leigh

Director of Photography:
Roger Pratt

Dressing Prop:
Eric Strange

Driver:
Chris Streeter

Editor:
Jon Gregory

Electrician:
Vernon Connolly
Barry Read

Executive Producer:
Tom Donald

First Assistant Director:
Howard Arundel

First Assistant Editor:
Andrew McClelland

Focus Puller:
Simon Fulford

Gaffer:
Ted Read

Generator Operator:
Bob Wilcox

Grip:
John Etherington

Hairdresser:
Miri Ben-Schlomo

Location Manager:
Micky Moynihan

Makeup Artist:
Morag Ross

Original Music Composer:
Andrew Dickson

Other:
Colin Smith
Maddy Hall

Painter:
Perry Bell
Colin Brooks

Producer:
Simon Channing Williams
Victor Glynn

Producer's Assistant:
Claudine Aidenbaum

Production Accountant:
Pat Howell

Production Coordinator:
Britt Harrison

Production Design:
Diana Charnley

Production Executive:
John Paul Chapple

Production Manager:
Caroline Hill

Production Runner:
Graham Broadbent

Property Master:
Les Benson

Script Supervisor:
Heather Storr

Second Assistant Director:
Marc Munden

Sound Assistant:
Peter Murphy

Sound Editor:
Peter Joly

Sound Mixer:
Billy McCarthy

Sound Re-Recording Mixer:
Peter Maxwell

Standby Carpenter:
Malcolm Roberts

Standby Painter:
Robin Heinson

Standby Property Master:
Steve Wheeler
Barry Arnold

Standby Rigger:
Tony Rubini

Still Photographer:
David Appleby
Frank O'Connor

Third Assistant Director:
David Carrigan

Title Designer:
Chris Allies

Transportation Captain:
Richard Booz

Unit Manager:
Sue Hayes

Wardrobe Assistant:
Debbie Scott

Wardrobe Supervisor:
Anthony Black

Writer:
Mike Leigh

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