Top billed cast

1. 

   Chandeep Uppal

   Meena Kumar

2. 

   Max Beesley

   Hairy Neddy

3. 

   Anna Brewster

   Anita Rutter

4. 

   Sanjeev Bhaskar

   Mr. Kumar

5. 

   Kathy Burke

   Mrs. Rutter

6. 

   Kabir Bedi

   Yeti

7. 

   Ayesha Dharker

   Mrs. Daljeet Kumar

8. 

   Lynn Redgrave

   Mrs. Omerod

9. 

   Alex Freeborn

   Sam Lowbridge

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2023-09-03

This is one of these gentle, tender, coming-of-age movies that raises the odd smile but is really pretty unremarkable. I can't speculate as to the degree in which it is semi-autobiographical of writer Meera Syal's own upbringing; but it centres around the story of a young British Asian girl "Meena" (Chandeep Uppal) whose family live in a town in the Midlands of England where she has to do her own growing up against a background of boredom and innate racial hostility. When the "Rutter" family move in next door, she is impressed by "Anita" (Anna Brewster) despite her being a bit rough around the...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• based on novel or book
• england
• culture clash
• 1970s
• growing up
• working class
• awakening
• midlands