East Is East ★★★ 1999 (R) Culture clash comedy is set in 1971 in the northern working-class community of Salford, England. Pakistani immigrant George Khan (Puri) is the would-be stern patriarch to a brood of six sons and one daughter. While he wants to raise his kids traditionally, they're rebelling. Especially in the marriage department: despite his own long marriage to the English Ella (Bassett), George tries to arrange marriages to fellow Pakistanis for his two eldest sons, with disastrous results. Story is swift-paced, definitely not p.c., and is told in amusingly broad strokes. Based on KhanDin's play. 96m/C VHS, DVD, Wide. GB Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Archie Panjabi, Chris Bisson, Jimi Mistry, Ian Aspinall, Jordan Routledge, Raji James;
Director:
Damien O'Donnell;
Writer:
Ayub Khan-Din;
Writer:
Brian Tufano;
Cameo:
Deborah Mollison. British Acad. '99: Film.
