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    Dirty Pretty Things

    Dirty Pretty Things
    Director: Stephen Frears
    Actors: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Audrey Tautou, Sophie Okonedo, Kriss Dosanjh, Israel Aduramo
    Studio: Miramax Films
    Category: DVD

    List Price: $14.99
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    Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars 120 reviews
    Sales Rank: 15202

    Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dvd, Ntsc
    Language: English (Original Language)
    Rating: R (Restricted)
    Region: 1
    Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
    Number Of Discs: 1
    Running Time: 97 Minutes
    Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
    Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6

    MPN: DISD33187D
    UPC: 786936232073
    EAN: 0786936232073
    ASIN: B00018D3LE

    Theatrical Release Date: 2002
    Release Date: March 23, 2004
    Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

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    Editorial Reviews:

    Amazon.com
    The luminous Audrey Tautou (Amelie) stars in Dirty Pretty Things, a riveting thriller about an illegal immigrant in London named Okwe (Chiwetal Ejiofor, Amistad), a doctor in his homeland who now works days as a taxi driver and nights as a hotel desk clerk. When a hooker tells him there's a mess in one of the hotel's bathrooms, Okwe finds a human heart in the toilet. He soon discovers a snare of desperation, poverty, and black-market body organs--and finds that his only friend, a Turkish hotel maid (Tautou), may be the next to be caught. Dirty Pretty Things, skillfully directed by Stephen Frears (High Fidelity, Dangerous Liaisons, My Beautiful Laundrette), fuses taut suspense with an unsettling portrait of life among the British underclass of immigrant service workers. Thanks to the excellent cast and script, the movie makes its social points subtly, while the gripping story coils itself around you. --Bret Fetzer

    Product Description
    Senay is an illegal immigrant working as a chambermaid in a seedy london hotel. One night she & okwe the night porter discover a human kidney in one of the rooms. The discovery reveals the shady truth behind the hotels clientele & the hotels night manager. Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 03/07/2006 Starring: Audrey Tautou Run time: 107 minutes Rating: R


    Customer Reviews:   Read 115 more reviews...

    4 out of 5 stars 3.5 stars out of 4   December 18, 2008
    One-Line Film Reviews (Ann Arbor)
    0 out of 1 found this review helpful

    The Bottom Line:

    A searing and caustic look at London's underworld, Dirty Pretty Things follows a cast of foreign characters led by a wonderful Chiwetel Ejiofor in a plot revolving around exploitation and illegal organ transplant; it's well-acted and well worth your time.



    5 out of 5 stars Very different type of thriller   December 8, 2008
    R. Kyle (USA)
    2 out of 2 found this review helpful

    This is not your ordinary cops and robbers story. The protagonist Okwe (Chiwetel Ejiofor) is an illegal Nigerian immigrant in London who discovered a human heart blocking the toilet in the hotel where he works. He's a hard-working man who drives a taxi in the day and works in a hotel at night. He rents the couch of a Turkish girl, Senay (Audrey Tautou).

    He reports the heart to his boss, who refuses to report the incident and advises the man that the hotel business is about strangers who will always surprise them. "It's our job to make everything pretty in the morning."

    Okwe cannot speak to the police, but he cannot let the incident go either.

    "Dirty Pretty Things" gives us a view of the seedier side of London. This is definitely a thinking person's mystery with a different and fascinating story. Kept me watching all the way through.

    Rebecca Kyle, December 2008






    4 out of 5 stars Dirty Pretty Things makes the world smaller   November 24, 2008
    R. Lynne (Portland, OR)
    Dirty Pretty Things is a great movie, with a strong message about how small the world is and makes one think twice about their purchases. Did someone have to endure working in a sweatshop to make my clothes? It opened my eyes about the world around me and through this movie the invisible (workers, and silent ideology) become visible and audible.



    5 out of 5 stars gripping intense and engaging   August 2, 2008
    Ashish Batra (Woodstock, IL United States)
    0 out of 1 found this review helpful

    Probably the best cast I have seen ever, and they are all relatively little known actors. An absolutely must see if you can handle it. The struggle as it really is rather than the glorified struggle Hollywood often clings to.


    3 out of 5 stars Poorly Scripted But Still Engaging   August 2, 2008
    R. J. Marsella (California)
    1 out of 1 found this review helpful

    Dirty Pretty Things is a reasonably good thriller set in the rather depressing world of immigrant workers in London. The film is part horror story as a hotel clerk from Nigeria discovers that the hotel is being used for an illegal human organ scheme. Chiwetel Ehiiofor is very strong in the lead role and Audrey Tautou does well as a Turkish immigrant who is struggling to survive and escape London for New York. Where the movie bogged down a bit for me is in some of the moralizing dialogue gets to be a bit too contrived and not true to character. Other than that flaw the film is unusual in it's subject matter and interesting on a number of levels. It certainly demonstrates the cruel and mercenary nature of people who are ready to exploit the vulnerable among us.


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