Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
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.
- daughter
- jealousy
- muslim
- northern england
- hippie
- religious education
- parent child relationship
- faith
- tradition
- culture clash
The bill
- Archie Panjabi — Meenah Khan
- Jordan Routledge — Sajid Khan
- Chris Bisson — Saleem Khan
- Lesley Nicol — Auntie Annie
- Emil Marwa — Maneer Khan
- Raji James — Abdul Khan
- Emma Rydal — Stella Moorhouse
- Ruth Jones — Peggy
- Gary Damer — Ernest Moorhouse
- John Bardon — Mr Moorhouse
- Jimmi Harkishin — Iyaaz Ali Khan
- Directed
- Damien O'Donnell
- Written
- Ayub Khan-Din
Production
- Rating
- 6.5 / 10 · 231 ratings
- Studio
- Assassin Films, Film4 Productions, BBC
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
