"Actor: Edna Dore"

• High Hopes | DVD | (13/04/2015) from £10.98   |  Saving you £7.00 (77.86%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Mike Leigh writes and directs this class struggle comedy drama which portrays the intertwined lives of an extended working class family in London during the Thatcher years. The story follows left-wing bike messenger Cyril Bender (Philip Davis), his girlfriend Shirley (Ruth Sheen) and Cyril's conservative mother (Edna Dore), who lives in the last council house on her street next to the appallingly upper class Boothe-Braines (Lesley Manville and David Bamber). Cyril's consumerist sister Valerie (Heather Tobias) and her car salesman husband Martin (Philip Jackson) join the family to throw a surprise 70th birthday party for Mrs. Bender but, despite their best intentions, the event descends into disaster.

• High Hope | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £8.08   |  Saving you £6.91 (85.52%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Wayne left home because of an argument about pies. Cyril would like to machine gun the Royal family. Rupert and Laetitia Boothe-Brain play yuppie sex games while deep in suburbia Valerie fails to arouse her husband Martin with a suggestion that he be Michael Douglas and she a virgin. Mrs Bender gets locked out of her house and is criticised by her neighbour for selfishly occupying a whole house in an increasingly fashionable area. And Cyril's girlfriend Shirley wants to start a family but gets no encouragement from Cyril who feels that the world should be spared more babies until everyone already here has a job a place to live and enough to eat.

• High Hopes | Blu Ray | (13/04/2015) from £14.83   |  Saving you £5.16 (34.79%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Mike Leigh writes and directs this class struggle comedy drama which portrays the intertwined lives of an extended working class family in London during the Thatcher years. The story follows left-wing bike messenger Cyril Bender (Philip Davis), his girlfriend Shirley (Ruth Sheen) and Cyril's conservative mother (Edna Dore), who lives in the last council house on her street next to the appallingly upper class Boothe-Braines (Lesley Manville and David Bamber). Cyril's consumerist sister Valerie (Heather Tobias) and her car salesman husband Martin (Philip Jackson) join the family to throw a surprise 70th birthday party for Mrs. Bender but, despite their best intentions, the event descends into disaster.

• High Hopes | DVD | (06/04/2020) from £12.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  High Hopes by award-winning Writer and Director, Mike Leigh (Mr Turner, Secrets Lies) depicts a slice of the lives of Shirley (Ruth Sheen) and Cyril (Philip Davis), a working-class couple in London. Cyril finds it hard to cope with his family; especially when his elderly Mum (Edna Dore) locks herself out and must ask her yuppie neighbours for help, and his social-climbing sister Valerie and her crass husband decide to throw a surprise party for their mum's 70th Birthday which has disaster written all over it. On top of all of this, Shirley wants a baby but how does this fit in with Cyril's Marxist ideals of a perfect world?

• High Hopes | Blu Ray | (06/04/2020) from £14.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  High Hopes by award-winning Writer and Director, Mike Leigh (Mr Turner, Secrets Lies) depicts a slice of the lives of Shirley (Ruth Sheen) and Cyril (Philip Davis), a working-class couple in London. Cyril finds it hard to cope with his family; especially when his elderly Mum (Edna Dore) locks herself out and must ask her yuppie neighbours for help, and his social-climbing sister Valerie and her crass husband decide to throw a surprise party for their mum's 70th Birthday which has disaster written all over it. On top of all of this, Shirley wants a baby but how does this fit in with Cyril's Marxist ideals of a perfect world?

• Midsomer Murders - Death in the Slow Lane | DVD | (20/06/2011) from £11.98   |  Saving you £9.00 (100.11%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Britain's best-loved detective series enters a new era as DCI John Barnaby a cousin of the original detective moves in to fight crime in the beautiful but deadly villages of Midsomer. New DCI John Barnaby arrives in Midsomer and is bemused by the quaint villages and their quirky residents. But when a local DJ is crushed to death at a traditional girls' boarding school he soon discovers that murder and deception are never far away. As the death toll rises could Barnaby's first case also be his last? Neil Dudgeon makes his debut as John Barnaby alongside established sidekick DI Ben Jones played by Jason Hughes.

• High Hopes | DVD | (25/05/2009) from £8.08   |  Saving you £-2.09 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The legendary Mike Leigh's slice-of-life look at a sweet working-class couple in London introduces us to Shirley and Cyril Cyril's mother who is in the grip of her declining years mother's ghastly upper-middle class neighbours and Cyril's pretentious sister and philandering husband. In due course Shirley wants a baby but Cyril who reads Marx and wants the world to be perfect is reluctant. Then Cyril's mother finds herself stranded forced to turn to her snooty neighbours for help. And when Cyril's sister Valerie stages a surprise party for her Mum's 70th birthday the stage is set for a disaster from start to finish. With Shirley barely holding it all together she may be able to put Cyril's protestations aside after all.

• High Hopes (Mike Leigh's) | Blu Ray | (28/02/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A film by one of Britain's most celebrated film makers and multi-award winning director of Life Is Sweet Naked Secrets and Lies Topsy Turvy and most recently Vera Drake. Fabulous Films presents for the first time on DVD this critically acclaimed slice of life dark comedy Mike Leigh's High Hopes. Wayne left home because of an argument about pies. Cyril would like to machine gun the Royal family. Rupert and Laetitia Boothe-Brain play yuppie sex games while deep in suburbia Valerie fails to arouse her husband Martin with a suggestion that he be Michael Douglas and she a virgin. Mrs Bender gets locked out of her house and is criticised by her neighbour for selfishly occupying a whole house in an increasingly fashionable area. And Cyril's girlfriend Shirley wants to start a family but gets no encouragement from Cyril who feels that the world should be spared more babies until everyone already here has a job a place to live and enough to eat. This disparate cast of characters swim in and out of each others lives against a background of London and its suburbs seamlessly orchestrated by director Mike Leigh.