Stand by · pulling the latest frames
Stand by · pulling the latest frames


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.
6.5
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“A comedy of families, a chip shop... and a very randy dog.”

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