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East Is East

  • May 14, 1999
  • 97 min.
  • Drama, Comedy
  • United Kingdom
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.

Original title: East Is East

6

nominations

17%

winning rate

1

win

British Academy Film Awards #53 - 2000

Award People Status
Best Picture Leslee Udwin - as producer(s)
Outstanding British Film Leslee Udwin, Damien O'Donnell Winner
Best Actor in a Leading Role Om Puri
Best Actress in a Leading Role Linda Bassett
Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer Ayub Khan Din
Best Adapted Screenplay Ayub Khan Din

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