Happy-Go-Lucky

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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.

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

Detail Info
Directed by Mike Leigh
Produced by Simon Channing-Williams
Written by Mike Leigh
Music by Gary Yershon
Cinematography Dick Pope
Editing by Jim Clark
Distributed by

• Miramax Films (US)
  
• Alliance Films (Canada)
  

Release date(s)

• 18 April 2008 (UK)
  
• 10 October 2008 (US)
  

Running time 118 min
Country United Kingdom
Language English