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East Is East
MEANRANK
71/100
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Mostly agreed
Lowest is AlloCiné on 60, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 78.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →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.
Details
- Director
- Damien O'Donnell
- Writer
- Ayub Khan-Din
- Studio
- Assassin Films, Film4 Productions, BBC
- Released
- 14 May 1999
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $3.8M
- Box office
- $28.2M
- Awards
- 0 wins, 1 nomination
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
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| 12th European Film Awards 1999 | Best Screenwriter | Ayub Khan-Din | Nominee |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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