Linbeymusol
Wonderful character development!
FeistyUpper
If you don't like this, we can't be friends.
Derry Herrera
Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.
Portia Hilton
Blistering performances.
paranormalsaint
BRILLIANT FILM FILMED IN MY HOMETOWN OF SALFORD,GREATER MANCHESTER, FUNNY ,MOVING FILM
Andy Howlett
This is a beautifully-made, bittersweet comedy drama with much to say about integration, the clash of cultures and the hierarchy within families, no matter what colour or culture they happen to be. I first saw this film soon after its release and since then I've probably watched it four or five times. Every time it appears on TV I find I am unable to resist it's wry humour and incisive social comment. There are some hilarious moments (such as the scene with the rather rude sculpture).It packs an enormous emotional punch for such a low budget production and puts many star-studded movies that have attempted to tell the same story to shame.
doc adams
I cannot help but notice the subliminal messages of hatred and narrow mindedness which is incorporated through out the movie. Start with the glaring mistake of history shown in the early part of the movie when the opening says "george khan immigrated from Pakistan to england in 1937". There was no Pakistan in 1937. It was part of India. But if the film maker has said that George Khan immigrated from India in 1937 then people would have associated his character with indians and thats not the goal of this movie The goal of this movie is to ridicule Pakistan. Then the other scenes especially of bringing 1972 war totally out of context of the movie and putting sentences like "these bastard indians" truly shows what this movie is all about. It is not a comedy movie or drama. It is a pathetic futile attempt by tiny narrow minded Indians hiding behind the lens of the screen and just trying to ridicule their neighbor. Im not from Pakistan. Im a white irish American and I have more than a few pakistani friends and I don't agree with the content of this movie and I had to speak up in their defense. Nevertheless I gave 1 star to the movie for the aforementioned reasons and also I didnot find the movie funny and most of the time the "comedy" was done in awfully bad taste
DesbUK
At 90 minutes, East is East doesn't outstay it's welcome. The film won the 1999 BAFTA for Best British Film and began life as a play at London's Royal Court two years earlier. It's a comedy drama set in Salford in the very grim North of England 1971. And if you're in a working class Anglo-Pakistani household it's doubly so. The Khans live in a back-to-back terrace house with an outdoor toilet (the production design here is terrific, it really does make the past a foreign country)and run the family chip shop.The film recalls another English movie from 1969 called 'Spring and Port Wine' - the northern working class family, the children wanting to break away from the grip of a tyrannical father. The father is George, played splendidly by Om Puri, the Pakistani father of a family who he doesn't realise are English: they're sausage and bacon eating English, with sons who booze and go to discos and one of whom has a white girlfriend and responds to the prospect of an arranged marriage with "I'm not marrying a f**king Paki".The whole cast is excellent - especially Archie Punjabi and Jimi Mistry - with Linda Bassett quite outstanding as Ella, George's English wife. She looks as if she's had 7 children. She's beaten up by George at one point, but remains devoted to her family throughout. She's a gem.
