Hideous Kinky (1999)

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Rating: R

Release Date: Apr 16, 1999

Running Time: 99 mins.

Country Of Origin: United Kingdom

Country Of Origin: France

starring: Kate Winslet, Said Taghmaoui, Bella Riza, Carrie Mullan, Pierre Clementi, Abigail Cruttenden, Ahmed Boulane, Sira Stampe, Amidou, Michelle Fairley

director: Gillies MacKinnon, Billy Mackinnon

Set in the early 1970's, a five year old English girl and her eight year old sister are taken to live in the exotic town of Marrakech by their young and beautiful mother. While hippie mother Julia seeks the freedom for her children that a stuffy English life would not allow, eight year old Bea craves order and routine. The family have little source of income, until they meet local Bilal. Julia and Bilal hit it off, and soon he comes to live with them. He is a small time con man with a good heart, and when he realises that all Europeans are not in fact rich, he does his best to provide for the family.

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Hideous Kinky casts Kate Winslet -- remember her from that boat movie? --as Julia, a restless single mother. Tired of her cooped-up life in a London flat and the neglect of the children's poet father, Julia heads off to Morocco with her two daughters, Bea (Bella Riza), 8, and Lucy (Carrie Mullan), 6. It's 1972, and Julia is hungry for hippie adventure and self-discovery. While she finds excitement in a hot fling with Bilal (the excellent Saòd Taghmaoui), a street acrobat, she also learns about…