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Happy Go Lucky
Director: Mike Leigh
Release Date: 10 October 2008
Starring: Sally Hawkins, Eddie Marsan, Alexis Zegerman, Sylvestra Le Touzel, Samuel Roukin
Language: English
Country: United Kingdom
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Happy-Go-Lucky is a 2008 film by Mike Leigh, shot in 2007 and released on 18 April 2008. It is a contemporary comedy, set in north London and starring Sally Hawkins. Poppy is a thirty-year old Primary School teacher in contemporary North London. She has great friends, a job she loves and a full life. The movie watches her confront the harsh realities of life and deal with them head-on, never losing her sense of humour. Poppy (Sally Hawkins) is a life-loving, irrepressibly cheerful, Pollyanna-type primary school teacher who is thirty years old, single, and infinitely optimistic and accepting.
She lives with her best friend and flatmate Zoe (Alexis Zegerman) in London. She is tested by a repressed driving instructor with anger problems (Eddie Marsan), and tests him in turn. She has exciting flamenco lessons, an encounter with a homeless man, a row with her pregnant sister, and a love-affair with the social worker guiding one of her students.
Competing at the Berlinale in 2008, it won Sally Hawkins the Silver Bear for best actress. The premiere for the film was held in Camden Town where the film is set on April 14, 2008. Locations used in the film include Camden Market , Regent’s Park boating lake and Southend on Sea.
Cast:
- Sally Hawkins as Poppy
- Alexis Zegerman as Zoe
- Andrea Riseborough as Dawn
- Samuel Roukin as Tim
- Sinead Matthews as Alice
- Kate O’Flynn as Suzy
- Sarah Niles as Tash
- Eddie Marsan as Scott
- Joseph Kloska as Suzy’s friend
- Sylvestra Le Touzel as Heather
- Elliot Cowan as Bookseller
- Nonso Anozie as Ezra
- Trevor Cooper as Patient
- Philip Arditti as Flamenco Student
- Karina Fernandez as Flamenco – Spanish Dance Teacher
- Jack Macgeachin as Nick
- Oliver Maltman as Jamie
- Caroline Martin as Helen
- Rebekah Staton as Flamenco Student
- Stanley Townsend as Tramp
- Tim Glanfield as Man in Pub
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