Advantages: Very watchable, amusing, very well acted, good social comment Disadvantages: The voice Heather Tobias adopts while playing the part of Valerie
RELEASED: 1988
RUNNING TIME: 101mins
MAIN CAST:-
Cyril (Philip Davis)
Shirley (Ruth Sheen)
Valerie (Heather Tobias)
Mrs Bender, Cyril & Valerie's mother (Edna Dore)
Martin (Philip Jackson)
Letitia, nickname 'Tittie' (Lesley Manville)
Rupert (David Bamber)
PRODUCERS:-
Simon Channing-Williams
Victor Glyn
WRITTEN, DIRECTED AND PRODUCED BY MIKE LEIGH
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HighHopes is a Mike Leigh film which doesn't have a specific storyline, merely concentrating on a section taken from the lives of a few individuals who are related to or connected to one another in some way.
This film is set in London during a time when the yuppie culture had well and truly installed itself. People, especially the young, who had good jobs and were in receipt of a high income, were buying up ...
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Advantages: Uniquely funny sitcom written by and starring Sean Lock! Disadvantages: some people may not like or get this humor ...
of a phone call or letter). You also get to see Errol playing back one of the recordings that his family sent to him as well, and just sitting here writing about it is making me laugh -thats probably one of my favorite funny bits in the series But believe me there are quite a few.
I have only mentioned a few of my favorite bits from the series but thats just to try and give you an idea of the style of humor to expect.
There were 2 series made of ' 15 Storeys High' But as of yet I have only seen series one . I hope to get hold of the 2nd series in the future and I definitaly recommend this to anyone who likes comedy that is a little odder then mainstream comedy ,something quite surreal and even dark in some places though not dark like scary just dark like weird .
Episodes included are:
1. The Sofa
2. The Model
3. Blue Rat
4. Pool Kids ...
Advantages: Great characters, good story, you can read it over and over and not get bored of it, easy to read Disadvantages: -
Mates, Dates and Sleepover Secrets
Cathy Hopkins
The book was published in 2002 by Piccadilly Press Ltd.
A bit about the author
Cathy Hopkins was born in Manchester but grew up in Kenya from the ages five to eleven. She started writing teenage fiction in the year 2000.
(To find out more visit www.cathyhopkins.com)
When/ Why did I buy the book?
I bought the book a good few years ago, I'd say about five, when I was about ten years old. I actually bought the book from a car boot sale, I think it was about 10p!! Which is an absolute bargain as the book is fantastic and I still read it now.
I'm not really sure why I bought it, it obviously must have just caught my eye through all the usual junk you find at a car boot sale. They say don't judge a book by its cover, well everyone does don't they. I think I judged ...
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Product details
EAN
9780747266044
Type
Fiction
Genre
Modern Fiction
Publisher
Headline Book Publishing Ltd
Title
High Hopes
Author
Billy Hopkins
ISBN
0747266042
Manufacturer's product description
It's September 1945 and Billy Hopkins is off to London to train as a teacher with only ten bob in his pocket. Despite his dad's gloomy warnings that he'll pick up bad ways from the toffs down South Billy survives two years in the Big City and returns to take up his first teaching job in Manchester - on GBP300 a year! The catch is his first class Senior Four who bitterly resent the raising of the school leaving age and are all set to take it out on their teacher - luckily the kid from Collyhurst has some tricks up his sleeve. And Billy's about to fall in love with the beautiful Laura. But is she as his dad says 'too good for the likes of us'?
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