
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.... (Full plot summary below)
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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.
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| Matinee MagazineChuck RudolphLike watching This Boy's Life with a laugh track superimposed. |
| Film Journal InternationalShirley SealyAlways stays firmly grounded in real-life family emotions-from laughter to tears, from hate to love. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonVery funny and worth plunking down a few pennies for. |
| Arkansas Democrat-GazettePhilip Martin...by the end of the film Khan seems less an oppressor than a casualty, a man exhausted and bewildered by the fluctuations of his own crazy, terrorist of a heart. |
| Internet ReviewsSteve RhodesDirector O'Donnell continually pulls his punches. The result is a movie that's kind of cute and kind of poignant, which all adds up to being only kind of nice. |
| Common Sense MediaNell MinowPakistan mixes with UK in cultural identity drama. |
| User ReviewAmelia Ri know Raji James haha! great film with important messages |
| User ReviewLaurence Ni saw it at skol and it looked rubbish but then i saw it and i loved it |
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