Happygolucky 2008 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Vera drake, 2004, delivers the delightfully fresh and cheerful comedy happygolucky. But mike leigh and his leading actress sally hawkins have brought it off in his excellent new film, happygolucky. The film was well received by critics and resulted in a number of awards for mike leighs direction and screenplay and lead actress sally hawkinss performance.
Whether or not mike leigh made his upbeat 2008 film at least partly in direct response to his unfounded reputation of being miserable or whether it was simply a case as leigh has said of. Ive never seen marsan before but he deserves awards. Mike leighs latest partiallyimprovised film is a lighthearted comedy with moments that bite, and features. Happygolucky full movie 2008 lets join, fullhd moviesseasonepisode here. Everything you need to know about happygolucky movie 2008. Happygolucky is no carefree meander through the joys of being british. Met sally hawkins, eddie marsan en alexis zegerman. From director mike leigh vera drake happygo lucky is a laughoutloud comedy. Poppy is a teacher from north london whose life, at first glance, seems to be full of. Happy go lucky 2008 trailer poppy is a teacher from north london whose life, at first glance, seems to be full of complications. Click on any of the 2008 movie posters images for complete information about all 2008 movies in theaters, including trailers. Mis bijvoorbeeld nooit meer een film van stanley kubrick of meryl streep.
Happy go lucky, british show for children featuring jack haig happy go lucky veronica mars, episode of veronica mars. Deciding she wants to learn to drive, she starts taking. We first see poppy peddling her bike through london, and smiling all the time to herself. Of course he hasnt ever made a completely funny film, and happygolucky has scenes that are not funny, not at all. The screenplay focuses on a cheerful and optimistic primary school. She stops at a bookshop and tries to cheer up the dour proprietor. Mike leighs charming, oscarnominated comedydrama, starring sally hawkins poppy sally hawkins is an irrepressibly cheerful. Its a joyous, feelgood film youll find irresistible. Happygolucky 2008 teacher poppy cross sally hawkins is an eternal optimist who lives with her more cynical friend zoe alexis zegerman.
The directors new film is a charming character study starring sally hawkins as a quirky, chirpy primary school teacher, poppy. Happygolucky is a 2008 british comedydrama film written and directed by mike leigh. In her berlin film festival awardwinning performance, hawkins has been given a starmaking role in the tradition of. Find where to watch happygolucky 2008 in new zealand. I can see what the film is trying to achieve but unfortunately the film falls unbelievably short of the mark. Hawkins, the heroine of new leigh film happygolucky. Academy award nominee mike leigh best director and best original screenplay. Film education is not responsible for the content of external sites. My wife saw the film at our local film society while i had to stay at home with our daughter. A look at a few chapters in the life of poppy, a cheery, colorful, north london schoolteacher whose optimism tends to exasperate those around her. This is mike leighs funniest film since life is sweet 1991. Mike leighs happygolucky is the story of a good woman. Our list of movies in theaters in 2008 is even more accurate than the imdb database.
The protagonist, poppy is definitely annoying in her complete optimism but she. Read what our users had to say about happygolucky at. Happygolucky is, of course a writers work but in here if not for sally hawkins it would have been difficult for mike to pull it off as sally is everything that the plot, character and the. Happygolucky is wonderful, a tale of nottoobig moments and of finding the joy in them. The films opening sequence follows a group of female friends partying in clubs, then finds all of them. Wild about movies provides you the most uptodate 2008 movies information online. Happygolucky full full movie, happygolucky full full movie streaming happygolucky full movie engsub watch happygolucky full english full movie online happygolucky full film online watch. Happygolucky 311 movie clip the golden triangle 2008 hd duration. Academy award nominee mike leigh best director and best original screenplay, vera drake, 2004, delivers the delightfully fresh and cheerful comedy happygolucky. Happygolucky on dvd march 10, 2009 starring sally hawkins, eddie marsan, andrea riseborough, sinead matthews. Sally hawkins is a real delight in mike leighs new film as poppy, a 30yearold londoner with a bubbly nature and an everpresent laugh that teeters between lo. She doesnt want to change him, just infect him with her irrepressible good nature. Ive never seen marsan before but he deserves awards for this movie, no question.
The screenplay focuses on a cheerful and optimistic primary school teacher and her relationships with those around. Shes a conscientious and exuberant primaryschool teacher, flatmates with zoe, her longtime friend. Major chick flick to the point of complete drivel, complete lack. Well known for his sober, bleak works, master and veteran english director mike leigh cranks up the positive with happygolucky. Happygolucky is a highly enjoyable and often very funny film, but it also carries terrible sadness. Happy go lucky trailer in cinemas 18 april youtube. Centered on a plucky, chirping elementary school teacher in north london, mike leighs happygolucky may, at first, look like a great diversion from the salfordborn directors workingclass.
As the film draws to a close you may wonder about happygoluckys purpose or whether its message a bubbly, lifeaffirming girl meets a scary jerk who tries to bully her out of her happy. Happygolucky is een britse komische film uit 2008, geregisseerd door mike. In keeping with her sunny nature, shots of her biking, rowing and balancing on a pier are suffused with light. The screenplay focuses on a cheerful and optimistic primary school teacher and her relationships with those around her. If part of the point of art is to help us to understand people we would otherwise have little sympathy with, then this film is a work of art. Happygolucky critics consensus mike leighs latest partiallyimprovised film is a lighthearted comedy with moments that bite, and features a brilliant star turn by sally hawkins. Sally hawkins and eddie marsan star in director mike leighs lighthearted comedy concerning an eternally optimistic teacher living and working in north london. Neither is it a film that will make everyone smile as director mike leigh hopes. It is hard to figure if she is a little crazy and irresponsible. The shape of water 74 venice film festival duration. Whether or not mike leigh made his upbeat 2008 film at least partly in.