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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

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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40

Chicago Reader by

Far less insulting to Pakistanis or Mancunians than it is to its audience.

80

Village Voice by Amy Taubin

Largely a showcase for Puri, and he rises to the occasion with a performance that bursts from the screen and tears into your heart.

70

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.

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