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Writers:
Hanif Kureishi (short story)
Hanif Kureishi (written by)
Release Date:
7 January 1998 (France) more
Plot:
Pakistani taxi-driver Parvez and prostitute Bettina find themselves trapped in the middle when Islamic fundamentalists decide to clean up their local town. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win & 5 nominations more
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The petty humiliations of a working man more (34 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Om Puri | ... | Parvez |
 | Rachel Griffiths | ... | Bettina / Sandra |
 | Akbar Kurtha | ... | Farid |
 | Stellan Skarsgård | ... | Schitz |
 | Gopi Desai | ... | Minoo |
| Harish Patel | ... | Fizzy |
 | Sarah-Jane Potts | ... | Madeline Fingerhut (as Sarah Jane Potts) |
| Judi Jones | ... | Mrs. Fingerhut |
| Geoffrey Bateman | ... | Chief Inspector Fingerhut |
| Bernard Wrigley | ... | Drunk man |
| Moya Brady | ... | Druggy prostitute |
| Badi Uzzaman | ... | Man in mosque |
| Andy Devine | ... | Comedian |
| Shiv Grewal | ... | Waiter |
| Omar Salimi | ... | Rashid |
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Rated R for sexuality, language and a scene of drug use.
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Runtime:
Finland:88 min | UK:87 min
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Color (Metrocolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Australia:MA (TV rating) | Iceland:12 | Finland:K-16 | Portugal:M/16 | UK:15 | USA:R
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Featured in "Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: (1999-07-03)" (1999) more
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While this film is superficially about East Indian immigrants in Yorkshire, its themes are universal. Anyone who is or is related to an immigrant should feel at home here.
As far as religion goes, these characters could be Jewish or Christian as easily as Moslem. The mediaevalist/modernist conflict is the same. There's no reason why the audience for this film should be just a parochial one.
Om Puri gives a brilliant and nuanced performance as the central character, the resilient Punjabi cab driver. Rachel Griffiths is very fine as always as his kindred spirit, a hooker, although her character here is a little more limited in scope than those she portrayed in "Muriel's Wedding" and especially "Hilary and Jackie". Stellan Skarsgård also steps into a pair of shoes a few sizes smaller than those he has worn in the past.
Unheralded though it may have been, this is another thoughtful comedy-drama from Hanif Kureishi, author of "My Beautiful Laundrette" amongst others.