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Title High hopes / Film Four International in association with British Screen presents a Portman Film ; producers: Simon Channing-Williams, Victor Glynn ; written and directed by Mike Leigh.

Publication Info. Richmond Hill, Ont. : Distributed by BFS Entertainment & Multimedia, 2009.
1988.

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Media Room  DVD HIGH    Check Shelf
Description 1 videodisc (approximately 109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Series Best of British.
Best of British.
System Details DVD, Dolby Digital.
Cast Philip Davis, Ruth Sheen, Heather Tobias, Edna Doré.
Credits Editor, Jon Gregory ; director of photography, Roger Pratt ; music, Andrew Dickson.
Note Originally released as a motion picture in 1988.
Summary Cyril and Shirley are a young, working-class couple who, in their struggle to make ends meet, have become absorbed in socialism. Cyril's sister Valerie and her husband aspire to a more privileged class. The only glue holding the siblings together is their withdrawn and wistful old mother.
Audience Not rated.
Language English dialogue.
Note GMD: videorecording.
Subject Sisters -- England -- Drama.
Man-woman relationships -- England -- Drama.
Socialists -- England -- Drama.
Great Britain -- History -- 20th century -- Drama.
Genre/Form Feature films.
Comedy films.
Added Author Davis, Philip, 1953-
Sheen, Ruth.
Tobias, Heather, 1953-
Doré, Edna, 1921-2014
Leigh, Mike, 1943-
Channing-Williams, Simon.
Glynn, Victor.
Film Four International.
British Screen.
Portman Film and Television Ltd.
BFS Entertainment & Multimedia Ltd.
Standard No. 066805309496
Music No. 30949-D BFS Entertainment & Multimedia
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