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West Is West

West Is West

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 19, 2010

Runtime

1h 43m

Genres

Comedy

User Score

64%

Original Title

West Is West

Production Companies

BBC Film, Assassin Films

Director

Andy de Emmony

Budget

$3,837,625

Revenue

$3,867,000

Description

Manchester, North of England, 1975. The now much diminished, but still dysfunctional, Khan family continues to struggle for survival. Sajid, the youngest Khan is deep in pubescent crisis under heavy assault both from his father's tyrannical insistence on Pakistani tradition, and from the fierce bullies in the schoolyard. So, in a last, desperate attempt to 'sort him out', his father decides to pack him off to Mrs Khan No 1 and family in the Punjab, the wife and daughters he had abandoned 35 years earlier.