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My Son the Fanatic 1999

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My Son the Fanatic
(for sexuality, language and a scene of drug use)
Cast
Om Puri, Gopi Desai, Akbar Kurtha, Sarah-Jane Potts, Judi Jones, Geoffrey Bateman, Stellan Skarsgard, Harish Patel, Rachel Griffiths, Bernard Wrigley
Director
Udayan Prasad
Producer
George Faber, Chris Curling
Writer
Hanif Kureishi
Duration
01:26:00
Release
Friday June 25 1999
Genres
Comedy, Romance
Distributor
Miramax

Synopsis

Parvez is a reserved taxi driver who has spent 25 years in England building a life for himself and his family. Minoo is Parvez's dutiful wife and Farid is Parvez's teenage son, who is consumed with preserving his roots in a multicultural country. The stability of Parvez's home is disrupted when Parvez begins an illicit love affair with a local prostitute, Bettina, and a German business man, Schitz, comes to town and challenges Parvez to live a more free lifestyle. Now, fundamentalism meets Western hedonism over the kitchen table of an Asian family...


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