Culture-clash comedy, set in Manchester in 1971. A transplanted Paki, who himself has taken an Anglo wife, is for some reason determined that his own sons be brought up in the old way: arranged marriages and no guff. The quest for humor stoops to large quantities of pee-pee, a belated circumcision, and a broad streak of cruelty toward ill-favored women. And the anti-traditionalist bias is so overpowering that the quest pauses altogether for a nasty detour into physical abuse. But it is not until the climactic meeting with the family of the brides-to-be, and the exact moment when a foam-rubber "sculpture" of a vulva falls in the lap of the future mother-in-law, that the movie crosses over the border from unfunny to detestable. Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Jordan Routledge, Archie Punjabi; written (from his own stage play) by Ayub Khan-Din; directed by Damien O'Donnell. (1999) — Duncan Shepherd
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