High Hopes – 1988

Condition: Excellent/Very Good

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Size: 40 x 30 Inches (102 x 76 cm)

An original British Quad poster for the 1988 release of the Mike Leigh classic “High Hopes” obtained directly from Mike Leedham of 2D Design Ltd, who were responsible for the design of the poster.

High Hopes is a 1988 British comedy drama film directed by Mike Leigh, focusing on an extended working-class family living in King's Cross, London, elsewhere.

The film primarily examines Cyril (Philip Davis) and Shirley (Ruth Sheen), a motor-cycle courier and his girlfriend, a gardener, along with their friends, neighbours, and Cyril's mother and sister.

Despite staying true to Leigh's down-at-the-heel, realist style, the film is ultimately a social comedy concerning culture clashes between different classes and belief systems. According to the critic Michael Coveney', "As in Meantime, High Hopes contrasts the economic and spiritual conditions of siblings. And in developing some of the themes in Babies Grow Old and Grown-Ups, it presents a brilliantly organised dramatic résumé of attitudes towards parturition and old age”

“Impossible dreams require impossible plans... put that in your pipe and smoke it"

Tags: 1980s Comedy Drama Quad British Thriller