Happy-Go-Lucky is a 2008 British Comedy-drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh. The screenplay focuses on a cheerful and optimistic primary-school teacher and her relationships with those around her. The film was well received by critics and resulted in a number of awards for Leigh, lead actress Sally Hawkins and supporting actor Eddie Marsan. Thirty years old and single, Pauline "Poppy" Cross shares a London flat with her best friend Zoe, a fellow teacher. Poppy is free-minded, high-spirited, very kind and somewhat crazy. The film opens with a high-spirited Poppy trying to engage a... shop employee in a conversation. He blatantly ignores her, yet this does not bother her. She maintains her good mood even when she discovers her bicycle has been stolen. Her main concern is not getting a new one or finding the bicycle, but that she did not get a chance to say goodbye. When Poppy takes driving lessons for the first time, her positive attitude contrasts starkly with her gloomy, intolerant and cynical driving instructor, Scott, who is emotionally repressed, has anger problems and becomes extremely agitated by improper driving.
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| Release date: | April 18, 2008 |
| Directed by: | Mike Leigh |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 118 Minutes |
| Producer: | David Garrett, Simon Channing-Williams |
| Editor: | Jim Clark |
| Music by: | Gary Yershon |
| Cinematography: | Dick Pope |
| Screenplay by: | Mike Leigh |
| Genre: | Comedy |