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Submit Your ReviewMPAA Rating: R | Year: 2008 | Running Time: 118 minutes
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$22.99HAPPY-GO-LUCKY / (WS SUB AC3 DOL)
Sally Hawkins and Eddie Marsan star in director Mike Leigh's seriocomedy concerning an eternally optimistic teacher living and working in North London. Thirty-year-old teacher Poppy (Hawkins) always has a smile on her face, and does her best to brighten the days of those around her by making small ...more
Happy-Go-Lucky represents yet another installment in Mike Leigh's ongoing canon of odes to working-class Britons leading quiet lives of desperation. The main character, Poppy (the extraordinary Sally Hawkins), is a charming and charismatic 30-year-old schoolteacher who operates according to a single principle: confront the ills of the world with bubbly exuberance and a series of lighthearted jests. The narrative arc brings Poppy to a moment of life-changing disillusionment -- not the shattering ...more
- Sally Hawkins - Poppy
- Eddie Marsan - Scott
- Alexis Zegerman - Zoe
- Sinead Matthews - Alice
- Kate O'Flynn - Suzy
- Sarah Niles - Tash
- Sylvestra Le Touzel - Heather
- Samuel Roukin - Tim
- Andrea Riseborough - Dawn
- Oliver Maltman - Jamie
- Caroline Martin - Helen
- Karina Fernandez - Flamenco Instructor
- Stanley Townsend
- Nonso Anozie
- Mike Leigh - Director
- James Clayton - Executive Producer
- Duncan Reid - Executive Producer
- Gail Egan - Executive Producer
- David Garrett - Executive Producer
- Tessa Ross - Executive Producer
- Simon Channing-Williams - Producer
- Mike Leigh - Screenwriter
- Patrick Rolfe - Art Director
- Dennis Schnegg - Art Director
- Nina Gold - Casting
- Georgina Lowe - Co-producer
- Jacqueline Durran - Costume Designer
- David Crossman - Costume Designer
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Happy-Go-Lucky
Nominee - 81st Oscars®:
Original Screenplay
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