With its "extraordinary cast" (Los Angeles Times) -- including Oscar? winner Daniel Day Lewis (My Left Foot, 1989) -- and riveting visual style (Newsweek), this "warm, compassionate and feisty" film (The Hollywood Reporter) about a young Pakistani man coming of age in London is "a fascinating, eccentric [and] very personal movie" (The New York Times)!
Living on the dole with his alcoholic father in a shabby South London flat, Omar is a bright-eyed Pakistani teenager who wants to make something of himself. And as his papa drowns deeper in vodka and self-pity, Omar turns to his unscrupulous wheeling-and-dealing Uncle Nasser to show him the key to success. But when Nasser hires Omar as manager of a seedy, dilapidated laundromat, Omar is forced to choose between running a squeaky clean establishment -- or conducting some very dirty business!
Released:
Tue, 06/03/2003
Format Aspect Ratio:
16x9-Wide Screen
Resolution:
480x720 LowRez
Audio Format:
Dolby Digital
Actors:
Saeed Jaffrey - Nasser
Actors:
Roshan Seth - Papa
Actors:
Daniel Day-Lewis - Johnny (as Daniel Day Lewis)
Actors:
Gordon Warnecke - Omar
Actors:
Derrick Branche - Salim
Actors:
Rita Wolf - Tania
Actors:
Souad Faress - Cherry
Actors:
Richard Graham - Genghis
Actors:
Shirley Anne Field - Rachel
Actors:
Winston Graham - Jamaican One
Actors:
Charu Bala Chokshi - Bilquis (as Charu Bala Choksi)
Actors:
Dudley Thomas - Jamaican Two
Actors:
Garry Cooper - Squatter
Actors:
Neil Cunningham - Englishman
Actors:
Persis Maravala - Nasser's Elder Daughter
Actors:
Walter Donohue - Dick O'Donnell
Actors:
Nisha Kapur - Nasser's Younger Daughter
Actors:
Stephen Marcus - Moose
Actors:
Badi Uzzaman - Dealer
Actors:
Ayub Khan-Din - Student
Actors:
Gurdial Sira - Zaki
Actors:
Chris Pitt - Kid One
Actors:
Dawn Archibald - Gang Member One
Actors:
Kerryann White - Kid Two
Actors:
Gerard Horan - Telephone Man
Actors:
Jonathan Moore - Gang Member Two
Actors:
Ram John Holder - Poet
Actors:
Colin Campbell - Madame Butterfly Man
Actors:
Dulice Leicier - Girl in Disco (as Dulice Leicier)
Actors:
Sheila Chitnis - Zaki's Wife
