East Is East

East Is East

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

R 1999 · 97 min · ★ 6.5 · Drama, Comedy

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.

Directed by Damien O'Donnell · Written by Ayub Khan-Din

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