Philip Davis, Ruth Sheen, Edna Dore
A satirical look at today's London through the eyes of yuppies, anti-establishment sixties throw-backs, and the upper class bourgeoisie.
DVD Release Date: May 12, 2009
Stats: 61 reviews
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...( read more)
Mike Leigh at his most Thatcher-bashing, even featuring a performance from an unsympathetic nouvelle bourgeoisie Maggie look-a-like. He has a knack of using actresses whose voices are so shrill they pierce your skull and seem to resonate on some otherwise unattainable level of c...( read more)
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