Release Date

13 Jan, 1989

Runtime

01:48: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

Slice-of-life look at a sweet working-class couple in London, Shirley and Cyril, his mother, who's aging quickly and becoming forgetful, mum's ghastly upper-middle-class neighbors, and Cyril's pretentious sister and philandering husband. Shirley wants a baby, but Cyril, who reads Marx and wants the world to be perfect, is reluctant. Cyril's mum locks herself out and must ask her snooty neighbors for help. Then Cyril's sister Valerie stages a surprise party for mum's 70th birthday, a disaster from start to finish. Shirley holds things together, and she and Cyril may put aside her Dutch cap after all.

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Actors

Phil Davis

Ruth Sheen

Edna Doré

Philip Jackson

Heather Tobias

Lesley Manville

David Bamber

Cheryl Prime

Judith Scott

Jason Watkins

Diane-Louise Jordan

Linda Beckett

Ali

Crew

Mike Leigh

Mike Leigh

Steve Wheeler

Roger Pratt

Tom Donald

Simon Fulford

Graham Martyr

John Etherington

Roger Pratt

George Richards

Robin Heinson

Lucy Bristow

Peter Murphy

Malcolm Roberts