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Hideous Kinky

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Hideous Kinky
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R,1hr 37min
Genre:
Drama
Released:
April 16, 1999
Director:
Gillies MacKinnon
Distributor:
Stratosphere Entertainment
Starring:
Kate Winslet, Saïd Taghmaoui, Bella Riza  ...more
Synopsis: Gillies MacKinnon directed this $5.6 million production with a screenplay by his brother, Billy MacKinnon. The film adapts the 1992 autobiographical novel by Esther Freud (Sigmund Freud's granddaughter) about hippie misadventures in North Africa in 1972, as described by a five-year-old girl. Disenchanted with the dreary conventions of English life, 25-year-old Julia (Kate Winslet) heads for Morocco with her children, six-year-old Lucy (Carrie Mullan) and precocious eight-year-old Bea (Bella Riza). ... Full Synopsis
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Brian J. Dillard, AMG Review
Hideous Kinky offers a refreshingly laid-back look at life in the North African nation of Morocco. Maybe the film's tone reflects the hippy leanings of its protagonist. Perhaps it's a reaction to the overly mythological treatment the country and its most famous city, Marrakesh, have received in Beat literature and in movies such as The Sheltering Sky. Either way, the film paints a grounded portrait ... Full Review
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