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East Is East

East Is East

A comedy of families, a chip shop... and a very randy dog.
May 14, 1999 1h 37m
6.5
212 votes

Synopsis

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.

Title East Is East
Companies Assassin Films, Film4 Productions, BBC
Countries United Kingdom
Keywords daughter, jealousy, muslim, northern england, hippie, religious education, parent child relationship, faith, tradition, culture clash, 1970s, modern society, islam, integration, cultural difference, british asian