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My Son The Fanatic

1998, Movie, R, 86 mins

My Son The Fanatic: Review

This charming movie about cross-cultural assimilation and intergenerational struggle in contemporary England may not always live up to its brilliant opening scene, in which Parvez (Om Puri), the epitome of oblivious fatherhood, meets his stuffy English in-laws-to-be. But it's a winner nonetheless. Parvez, a Pakistani taxi driver engaged in offhanded pimping in a bleak Northern English town, ambles into a middle age crisis that finds him falling in love with gentle prostitute... read more leave a comment