21 October 1997 Drama, Comedy 88 mins
Pakistani taxi-driver Parvez and prostitute Bettina find themselves trapped in the middle when Islamic fundamentalists decide to clean up their local town.
Watch the official My Son the Fanatic 1997 trailer in HD below or find more My Son the Fanatic videos on Vidimovie.
Om Puri as Parvez
Rachel Griffiths as Bettina / Sandra
Akbar Kurtha as Farid
Stellan Skarsgård as Schitz
Sarah-Jane Potts as Madeline Fingerhut
Gopi Desai as Minoo
Harish Patel as Fizzy
Geoffrey Bateman as Chief Inspector Fingerhut
Moya Brady as Druggy Prostitute
Bernard Wrigley as Drunk Man
Andy Devine as Comedian
Rowena King as Margot
Bhasker Patel as Maulvi
Dev Sagoo as Taxi Controller
Badi Uzzaman as Man in Mosque
Olwen May as Prostitute
Udayan Prasad Director
Hanif Kureishi Writer
Hanif Kureishi Story
Chris Curling Producer
George Faber Executive Producer
Alan Almond Director of Photography
David Gamble Editor
Michael Elliott Second Assistant Director
Stephen Warbeck Original Music Composer
France 21 October 1997
United Kingdom 01 May 1998
United States 25 June 1999
If you liked the My Son the Fanatic trailer, you may like these ones:
15 July 2015
Murphy is an American living in Paris who enters a highly sexually and emotionally charged relationship with the unstable Electra.
27 October 1995
Four tales, each centered on a woman, journey inward to explore the enigmatic reality of their lives, connecting through a single narrative thread.
07 July 1968
Fabrizio finds refuge from thugs in a convent, and passion in the arms of Lucrezia Borgia.
24 April 1998
The father of twin brothers wants to get them married to only twin sisters. But one of the brothers falls in love with a woman does not have a twin sister.
05 March 2025
Single and without a man on the horizon, Pia runs a failing photography studio in London with her best friend Jay.
14 February 2010
Pop star Christopher Wilde has fame, fortune and a big-budget Hollywood movie awaiting him. But after meeting Jessica Olson, a down-to-earth girl from the Midwest, he is faced with following his heart or doing what's best for his career.
01 November 2021
Liam White's career has peaked—to put it kindly. Uninspired and burnt-out, the titular character loses his will to finish his next novel and even shirks his public appearance commitments.
12 September 2015
The friendship between two life-long girlfriends is put to the test when one starts a family and the other falls ill.
15 February 1985
After deciding he needs to do something meaningful with his life, high school wrestler Louden Swain sets out on a mission to drop weight and challenge the area's undefeated champion, which creates problems with his teammates and health.
17 May 2003
Late one evening Alex suddenly abandons his girlfriend, Simone, to pursue the beautiful Aimee. In his encounter with Aimee time and place dissolve for him and he becomes a stranger to Simone, to whom he cannot return.
08 October 2001
Semi-true story of the Hollywood murder that occurred at a star-studded gathering aboard William Randolph Hearst's yacht in 1924.
02 July 1986
Two friends from Miami are in the French Riviera enjoying life by scamming money off of rich women. One day, they read about a young woman set to inherit $50 million from her father.
More movie trailers, teasers, and clips from My Son the Fanatic:
Trailer for Udayan Prasad's film starring Om PuriRachel GriffithsAkbar KurthaStellan SkarsgårdGopi DesaiHarish PatelSarah-Jane PottsJudi JonesGeoffrey ...
Pakistani taxi-driver Parvez and prostitute Bettina find themselves trapped in the middle when Islamic fundamentalists decide to clean up their local town.
A. O. Scott looks back at this 1997 film about a young British man's journey from assimilation to radical Islam. Related Link: Subscribe to the ...
Academy Award nominee Rachel Griffiths (Hillary And Jackie My Best Friend's Wedding) stars in a critically acclaimed story of unlikely love set against a clash ...
My Son the Fanatic Trailer.
Heute mal was in Englisch! Dieser Kurzfilm entstand im Rahmen einer Schulaufgabe angelehnt an den gleichnamigen Text "My son the Fanatic": ...
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1997:
31 October 1997
A film about one woman's personal freedom and the price she pays to keep it.
30 December 1997
Contained inside this box are the spirits of the Dark Carnival. To watch this video is to unleash ICP's voodoo magic into your life forever, A brave camera crew follows ICP and their deranged fans throughout Detroit and all across the country to try to capture some of the deadly insanity that surrounds ICP on film.
27 August 1997
Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, two of England's most important World War I poets are sent, along with other traumatized combatants, to a rest home in order to treat their emotional troubles, caused by the psychological fatigue that suffer the soldiers fighting in the no man's land.
26 October 1997
Bev Bodger is a married teacher tempted by an old school boyfriend to enjoy a little sex and chocolate in Paris.
02 May 1997
In 2257, a taxi driver is unintentionally given the task of saving a young girl who is part of the key that will ensure the survival of humanity.
02 July 1997
After a police chase with an otherworldly being, a New York City cop is recruited as an agent in a top-secret organization established to monitor and police alien activity on Earth: the Men in Black.
01 January 1997
On a warm summer's day in the not too distant future, Ireland's first divorce case is unravelling on national television.
07 September 1997
A documentary portrait of the backstage efforts to stage the play Moon Over Buffalo on Broadway.
08 July 1997
Brakhage's lecture at the Whitney Museum is a thoughtful meditation on another friend and fellow filmmaker Gregory Markopoulos.
30 November 1997
Marjetka is living ten years with Maks, who is a painter, and an uncompromising conceptual artist. At first, it seemed different: Max was witty, charming, talented and promising, so he hired Marjetka to reach fame and success.
01 January 1997
A Donatello Award winning short film about an insane woman who cultivates a lawn with beautiful flowers, only to find that they just add to her pain.
Have you watched My Son the Fanatic yet? What did you think about it?
Artwork, screen shots, trailers and other imagery is © 1997 BBC Film, BBC, Zephyr Films, Canal Plus Image International.