East Is East is set among an English-Pakistani family in the swinging Manchester of the early '70s. But the conflict of assimilation-vs.-tradition transcends the specifics of space and time.

Patriarch George Khan (the great Om Puri) is a Pakistani immigrant determined to raise his seven children according to his own culture, despite the fact that he himself is married to a white Englishwoman, Ella (Linda Bassett).
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The British have a knack for writing comedies that can find raucous laughter in the most tragic of situations.

 Films like Secrets and Lies, My Beautiful Laundrette, Shirley Valentine, Little Voice and Educating Rita are just a few more recent examples.
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