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Om
Puri, Linda Bassett, Jordan Routledge Miramax Films; Directed by Damien O'Donnell Rated R; 96 minutes; 1999 |
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| A traditional Pakistani father finds his family spinning out of control in this cross-cultural comedy set in 1971 in Salford, near Manchester, England. Om Puri plays the stern patriarch who rules over a brood of six sons and one daughter with an increasingly limp rod if iron. All of this children speak English, eat bacon and sausages and would rather do anything then to study Arabic at the makeshift local mosque. Despite his adherence to traditional social ethics, the irony of George's life is that his wife of 25 years and the mother of his children is, in fact, English. When his sons find out that he has secretly been arranging marriages for them, they rebel with repercussions that forces the family to reconsider its inherent structure. | |||||
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"Raucous,
funny and perfectly cast!" --Seattle Times "An effervescent comedy!" --Portland Oregonian |
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