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East Is East (1999)
Directed by Damien O'Donnell
“A comedy of families, a chip shop... and a very randy dog.”
Drama, Comedy · 1h 37m
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.
Cast
Om Puri
Linda Bassett
Jimi Mistry
Archie Panjabi
Chris Bisson
Lesley Nicol
Emil Marwa
Raji James
Ruth Jones
Crew
- Director
- Damien O'Donnell
- Screenplay
- Ayub Khan-Din
- Director of Photography
- Brian Tufano
- Editor
- Michael Parker
- Producer
- Leslee Udwin
Details
- Release date
- 1999-05-14
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- Russian, Hindi, Urdu, English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- Assassin Films, Film4 Productions, BBC
- Budget
- $3,800,000
- Box office
- $28,200,000