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Release Date: Jun 25, 1999
Running Time: 86 mins.
Country Of Origin: United Kingdom
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' dutiful wife and Farid is Parvez' teenage son, who is consumed with preserving his roots in a multicultural country. The stability of Parvez' home is disrupted when Parvez begins to fall for a local prostitute, Bettina, and a German business man, Schitz, comes to town and challenges Parvez to live a more free lifestyler. Fundamentalism meets western hedonism over a kitchen table of an Asian family.
cast + crew
Director
Parvez
Minoo
Farid
Madelaine Fingerhut
Mrs Fingerhut
Chief Inspector Fingerhut
Schitz
Fizzy
Bettina
Drunk Man
screenplay
from short story
Producer
Executive Producer
reviews
December 8, 2000
My Son The Fanatic
Don't let this diamond-bright gem slip between the cracks. Hanif Kureishi, best known for My Beautiful Launderette and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, wrote the screenplay, about the cultural conflict between a father and son. It's been twenty-five years since Parvez (Om Puri) left Pakistan for England, where he supports his wife and son by driving a taxi. Parvez's assimilation of Western culture includes scotch, Louis Armstrong records and an affair with a prostitute, Bettina, well… 
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