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Dirty Pretty Things - DVD

SKU: 6283443 | Release Date: 3/23/2004

Rating: R for Sexual Situations, Violence, Adult Situations, Profanity

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Rating: R for Sexual Situations, Violence, Adult Situations, Profanity
Format: DVD
Theatrical Release: 2002
Length: 97 minutes
Screen Formats: Enhanced Widescreen for 16x9 TV
Genre: Thrillers
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

Synopsis

Director Stephen Frears returns to the grittier themes of his earlier films for the urban thriller Dirty Pretty Things. Residing in London, the medically trained Okwe (Chiwetel Ejiofor) is a Nigerian immigrant working as a taxi driver and a hotel concierge, but he still lives on the edge of poverty. He shares a room with Senay (Am�lie's Audrey Tautou making her English-language debut), a Turkish refugee who works as a maid at the hotel. As illegal immigrants, Okwe and Senay live in fear of being deported. One night, working at the front desk, Okwe receives a call from prostitute Juliette (Sophie Okonedo) to check a broken toilet, where he makes a horrifying discovery. He reports it to the manager Sneaky (Sergi Lopez), who blackmails Okwe into staying quiet about it. Okwe soon discovers the presence of a shady business operation that sends him into the seedy London underworld. Senay becomes lured in with hopes of being able to fund her escape to America. Dirty Pretty Things marks the screenwriting debut of Steve Knight, co-creator of the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide

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Languages/Sound

Eng/Fre

Screen Formats

Enhanced Widescreen for 16x9 TV

Subtitle Languages

Eng

Additional Features

cc Feature commentary with director Stephen Frears Behind-the-scenes special

Chapters

Side #1 --
1. A Driving Doctor
2. Making Things Pretty
3. "Medicine for Your Soul"
4. Stories and Recipes
5. Coming and Going
6. "They See Things"
7. Waiting for the Maid
8. For a Passport
9. Do You Feel?
10. Peddling Happiness
11. Right and Wrong
12. "Today I Bit"
13. "Good at Chess"
14. The Only Way
15. "The People You Do Not See"
16. Okwe's Past
17. End Credits

Cast

Sophie Okonedo - Juliette
Sergi Lopez - Sneaky
Chiwetel Ejiofor - Okwe
Sergi L�pez - Sneaky
Audrey Tautou
Audrey Tautou - Senay
Benedict Wong - Guo Yi

Crew

Casting: Leo Davis
Director: Stephen Frears
Composer (Music Score): Nathan Larson
Production Designer: Hugo Luczyc-Wyhowski
First Assistant Director: Stuart Renfrew
Producer: Robert Jones
Executive Producer: Julie Goldstein
Producer: Tracey Seaward
Executive Producer: David M. Thompson
Sound/Sound Designer: Peter Lindsay
Editor: Mick Audsley
Cinematographer: Chris Menges
Executive Producer: Tracey Scoffield
Costume Designer: Odile Dicks-Mireaux
Executive Producer: Paul Smith
Screenwriter: Steven Knight
Art Director: Rebecca Holmes
Executive Producer: Allon Reich ,Teresa Moneo
Screenwriter: Steve Knight
Casting: Leonora Davis

Dirty Pretty Things: AMG Review
Michael Hastings , AMG

After biding time between glossy Hollywood productions and U.K. domestic comedy-dramas, director Stephen Frears returns to the multiethnic, working-class milieu that served his seminal early work, with inspired results. Dirty Pretty Things is that rarest of beasts, the sort of thing only the British can produce: the proletariat mystery-thriller. Former game-show impresario Steve Knight delivers a script that adheres to all the standard tenets of the paranoid thriller, but where he, Frears, and the talented cast make the material their own is in the colorful, grimy details of immigrant life in modern-day London. In fact, for its first third, one might think Dirty Pretty Things is a slice-of-life character study. Only when bodies start popping up does the film shift into thriller mode, and thanks to the realistic tone Frears worked so hard to establish in the opening act, all the revelations, red herrings, and foreshadowing are seamlessly integrated into picture as a whole. If Dirty Pretty Things wraps up all of its plot strands a little too neatly -- complete with a very conventional mustache-twirling villain in the form of Sergi Lopez -- the genuine goodwill engendered by leads Chiwetel Ejiofor and Audrey Tautou (acquitting herself well in her first English-language, not to mention Turkish-accented, role) lends itself to the film's somewhat-improbable happy ending. ~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide

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