East Is East (1999)
"A comedy of families, a chip shop... and a very randy dog."
ThumbScore
👍 70%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 76%
(RT: 78%, MC: 74) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Linda Bassett as Ella Khan
Ian Aspinall as Nazir Khan
Jimi Mistry as Tariq Khan
Jordan Routledge as Sajid Khan
Chris Bisson as Saleem Khan
Lesley Nicol as Auntie Annie
Is East Is East good?
Most people think so. 70% audience score, estimated from 231 TMDB ratings. Critics agree, scoring it 76%.
Overview
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. Wikipedia ↗
