Far less insulting to Pakistanis or Mancunians than it is to its audience.
East Is East
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United Kingdom · 1999
Rated R · 1h 37m
Director Damien O'Donnell
Starring Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Ian Aspinall, Jimi Mistry
Genre Comedy, Drama
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In 1971 Salford fish-and-chip shop owner George Khan expects his family to follow his strict Pakistani Muslim ways. But his children, with an English mother and having been born and brought up in Britain, increasingly see themselves as British and start to reject their father's rules on dress, food, religion, and living in general.
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Largely a showcase for Puri, and he rises to the occasion with a performance that bursts from the screen and tears into your heart.
Baltimore Sun by Chris Kaltenbach
Unwisely bills itself as a comedy.
This engaging ensemble comedy that could have been called ''Father Doesn't Know Best.''
Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas
Above all a man's confrontation with self in middle-age and his need to accept the fact that his children, beyond their mixed ancestry, are after all native-born English citizens.
Charlotte Observer by Lawrence Toppman
Examines Muslim family's religious warfare.
Rolling Stone by Peter Travers
Get your titles straight -- this is the good one, and a roaring good time.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer by William Arnold
Bounces between funny and chilling.
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