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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780794204839
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 079420483X
Label: Fox Lorber
Manufacturer: Fox Lorber
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Fox Lorber
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 20, 2004
Running Time: 105 minutes
Sales Rank: 86597
Studio: Fox Lorber
Theatrical Release Date: 1999
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Description:
Krutin Patel's award-winning film ABCD ('American Born Confused Desi') is the story of an Indian family living in suburban New Jersey. Madhur Jaffrey (Cotton Mary) stars as Anju, a widow tugging on tradition and reluctant to accept the mores of North American society. Her main goal in life is to see her two children get married to respectable Indian partners. Raj (Faran Tahir) and Nina (Sheetal Sheth) are polar opposites; Raj is the 'good son,' engaged to a devoted and traditional Indian girl; and Nina is the wild child, rebelling against her mother and all aspects of Indian custom, including only sleeping with white men. Both of their lives change dramatically when they find themselves attracted to the person who they least expected. With a mix of humor and poignancy, Patel presents a compelling look at the emotional consequences of growing up without a firm cultural identity.
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
I half expected this to be an "Indian movie", Bollywood without the singing. It's not. It's a well-written romance/comedy/drama that just happens to be about a particular set of people with their particular cultural issues.
But the issues and emotions conveyed are sure to be shared by anyone who has friends and family with ties to competing and conflicting cultures.
Rating:  -
It had alot of promise but it falls flat on it's face in every way.
plot idea - good
acting - bad
plot/script - BAD
If you really want to watch this movie, rent it. But I wouldn't even waste the 2 dollars and the 2 hours of your life this movie will take.
Rating:  -
This moive has all the makings of a good story love, sex, culture, & finding one's self, but the actual plot was horrible. The moive drags on and on.. the inital plot seems to be just that a shell of a story, it has no real depth and didn't tackel the whole Desi's theory like I thought.. I learned more form American Chai than this.
Rating: -
"Reminiscent of early films by Wayne Wang and Ang Lee..."ABCD" is the groundbreaker...a wryly observant comic drama... a film that reminds us that our country is less of a cultural melting pot than a crazily tossed salad." -Kirk Honeycutt, The Hollywood Reporter
"Stunning...extraordinary. [A] funny touching and haunting film." -Peter Travers, Rolling Stone Magazine
"Witty, smart, intelligent, superbly acted and passionately told." -Harry Knowles, Aint It Cool News
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One more movie about immigrant troubles, and the agony of "culture clash"... told from the point of view of a second-generation immigrant. By this point it's just gotten boring. Guys, GET OVER IT. There's really no need to be that confused about your identity you know. You have a choice: Be Indian, Be American. Better yet, you could actually choose the good parts of both cultures and combine them...but no, this movie choses instead to be a rant against India. Very well, whatever makes you happy....but ... Read More
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