🎬 Drama, Comedy

East Is East

"A comedy of families, a chip shop... and a very randy dog."

⭐ 6.5/10 1999 1h 37m Dir. Damien O'Donnell
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About this movie

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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6.5/10 224 votes

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Year
1999
Runtime
1h 37m
TMDB Rating
⭐ 6.5/10
Votes
224
Genre
Drama, Comedy
Language
EN
Budget
$3.8M

Cast

🎭 Drama 🎭 Comedy 🎬 Damien O'Donnell 👤 Om Puri 👤 Linda Bassett 👤 Ian Aspinall
daughter jealousy muslim northern england hippie religious education parent child relationship faith tradition culture clash 1970s modern society

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East Is East has a runtime of 1h 37m (1 hour and 37 minutes).
East Is East was directed by Damien O'Donnell and released in 1999.
East Is East is a Drama, Comedy film (1999).
The cast of East Is East includes Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Ian Aspinall, Jimi Mistry, Archie Panjabi.
East Is East has a TMDB rating of 6.5/10 based on 224 votes.

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