High Hopes (Remastered)

High Hopes by award-winning Writer and Director, Mike Leigh (Mr Turner, Secrets & Lies) depicts a slice of the lives of Shirley (Ruth Sheen) and Cyril (Phil Davis), a working-class couple in London.Cyril finds it hard to cope with his family; especially when his elderly Mum (Edna Dore) locks herself out and must ask her yuppie neighbours for help, and his social-climbing sister Valerie and her crass husband decide to throw a surprise party for their mum's 70th Birthday which has disaster written all over it.On top of all of this, Shirley wants a baby but how does this fit in with Cyril's Marxist ideals of a perfect world?Created from the Newly Restored Director-Approved 2K Digital Transfer