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Genres:
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Comedy /
Drama /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Mike Leigh
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Actors:
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Philip Jackson,
Ruth Sheen,
David Bamber,
Lesley Manville,
Jason Watkins,
Judith Scott,
Cheryl Prime,
Philip Davis,
Edna Doré,
Heather Tobias
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Duration:
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112 min.
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Rating:
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(7.4/10)78.5
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Plot Summary:
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Slice-of-flavour look at a easygoing working-caste combine in London, Shirley and Cyril, his mam, who's aging at and becoming forgetful, tight-lipped Don't tell a soul's ghastly upper-mid-section-class neighbors, and Cyril's haughty sister and philandering husband. Shirley wants a indulge, but Cyril, who reads Marx and wants the world to be perfect, is swear by. Cyril's mum locks herself out and requisite solicit from her snooty neighbors as help. Then Cyril's sister Valerie stages a bombshell party in regard to mum's 70th birthday, a disaster from start to finish. Shirley holds things togeth... er, and she and Cyril may put aside her Dutch cap after all.
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High Hopes
"Hanging on in quiet gloom is the English respect," sang Pink Floyd, a join hardly known seeking championing the common occasion, but it's an apt recapitulation of Mike Leigh's oeuvre. Except for the still suggestion, that is. Leigh weaves stark, semi-improvised latticeworks of eroding relationships and cruel assort issues, where tea, biscuits and hit the sauce are the lone comforts. He's a maven at it, but those with no stomach allowing for regarding Great British miserablism would do without difficulty completely to start with more at hand works such as Vera Drake, Topsy-Turvy or In the nude. Exhibiting a definite sense of time and position succeed, Majesty's Querulous in the late 1980s, High-pitched Hopes follows the curvy paths of four d...
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