This biting social/sexual satire was from the same team responsible for My Beautiful Laundrette (1986).
Sammy (Ayub Khan-Din) and Rosie (Frances Barber) are a hip and unconventional middle-class London married couple. They live in the midst of Thatcherite inner-city chaos, surround themselves with intellectual street people, and sleep with everybody – except each other.
Things become interesting when Sammy’s father, Rafi (Shashi Kapoor), who is a former Pakistani government minister, comes to London (where he lived as a youth) to retire.
Roland Gift from Fine Young Cannibals proves himself as good an actor as he was a singer.
Rafi Rahman
Shashi Kapoor Sammy
Ayub Khan-Din Rosie Hobbs
Frances Barber Alice
Claire Bloom Danny “Victoria”
Roland Gift Anna
Wendy Gazelle Vivia
Suzette Llewellyn Rani
Meera Syal Ghost
Badi Uzzaman Bridget
Tessa Wojtczak Eva
Emer Gillespie Margy
Lesley Manville
Director
Stephen Frears
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