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East is East. Half Pakistani-half British family in England, Pakistani Dad wants them to be more traditional, and as he sees his children spin off into the Western world (the boys fight his attempts to arrange their marriages), he gets wacky, angrier, and more militant. In the end, his family thinks he's gone haywire, his British wife tries to keep the unit together, and he resorts to beating her and one of his sons, and threatening another with a knife. A long, dreary slice-of-life movie, with lousy pacing and little wit interspersed therein. The problem is that the father comes off as a multinational dickhead, rather than a man who has been forced into being a dickhead by cultural pressures.
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