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7 January 1998 (France)
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Pakistani taxi-driver Parvez and prostitute Bettina find themselves trapped in the middle when Islamic fundamentalists decide to clean up their local town. full summary | add synopsis
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My Son the Fanatic deserves applause for it's originality and honesty at portraying south asians in the west
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Om Puri | ... | Parvez | |
| Rachel Griffiths | ... | Bettina / Sandra | |
| Akbar Kurtha | ... | Farid | |
| Stellan Skarsgård | ... | Schitz | |
| Gopi Desai | ... | Minoo | |
| Harish Patel | ... | Fizzy | |
| Sarah-Jane Potts | ... | Madeline Fingerhut (as Sarah Jane Potts) | |
| Judi Jones | ... | Mrs. Fingerhut | |
| Geoffrey Bateman | ... | Chief Inspector Fingerhut | |
| Bernard Wrigley | ... | Drunk man | |
| Moya Brady | ... | Druggy prostitute | |
| Badi Uzzaman | ... | Man in mosque | |
| Andy Devine | ... | Comedian | |
| Shiv Grewal | ... | Waiter | |
| Omar Salimi | ... | Rashid |
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Rated R for sexuality, language and a scene of drug use.
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Finland:88 min | UK:87 min
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Color (Metrocolor)
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Featured in "Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: (1999-07-03)" (1999)
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My Son the Fanatic was a surprizing treat. I never heard of it before renting at blockbuster last night. I don't think it ever played in Toronto theatres. Never the less I must applaud at Hanif Kureshi's yet again bold and honest attempt at highlighting a recent phenomenon in the South Asian community: the son going "holier than thou" on the family. This film touched me personally because in my case the opposite happened; my father turned fanatic muslim on me. Hanif Qureshi's "My Beautiful Laundrette" is one of my favourite films of all time and after "Budha of Suburbia" I fell in love with this brilliant man and his work. "My Son" is a lot less shocking but still weaves it's way through the father and son conflict elegantly and I am shocked at how blind the Oscar nominators are when it comes to Om Puri's brilliant acting! This is the first film portraying South Asians where the wife has some personality and actually speaks out so I see her as a mother, a wife and a woman that I know because she exists in my community. She is dull and fat and stuck in her little world within the four walls of her home. I dislike her but I know her. The subtle emotions and body language of this lower middle-class family might not be fully understood by a non-south asian critic and that is why some find it moves slowly sometimes. I could not agree with Earnest Hardy more when he says this film (and others by the writer) "endorse a morality of compassion". I think that is the only moral value worth pushing!