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East Is East (1999)
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The Khan children's improvisations around their father's expectations make family logistics a rich comic field. Ayub Khan Din's Salford-set story keeps different British-Pakistani experiences inside the same household. Domestic violence is serious rather than just another joke, so its warmth and broad comedy are accompanied by real fear.
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In 1971 Salford fish-and-chip shop owner George Khan expects his family to follow his strict Pakistani Muslim ways. But his children, with an English mother and having been born and brought up in Britain, increasingly see themselves as British and start to reject their father's rules on dress, food, religion, and living in general.