Today’s Prayer Focus

Dirty Pretty Things

MPA Rating: R-Rating (MPA)

for sexual content, disturbing images and language.

Moral Rating:	not reviewed
Moviemaking Quality:
Primary Audience:	Adults
Genre:	Crime Thriller
Length:	1 hr. 47 min.
Year of Release:	2002
USA Release:	January 27, 2003 (festival) July 18, 2003 (limited)

Relevant Issues

rape victims’ stories

shame and rape

refugees and immigrants

illegal immigration

illegal drugs

language barrier

organ theft

thieves in the Bible: theft, robbery, the two thieves

stealing

Morning After Pill

murder in the Bible

death

blackmail

justice

justice of God

the final judgment of God

loss of virginity

prostitution

sexual exploitation

sexual abuse

venereal diseases

genital mutilation

mother daughter relationship

father daughter relationship

husband wife relationship

Featuring	Audrey Tautou … Senay Gelik Chiwetel Ejiofor … Okwe Sergi López … Sneaky/Juan Sophie Okonedo … Juliette Benedict Wong … Guo Yi Kenan Hudaverdi … Cafe Owner Damon Younger … Punter Paul Bhattacharjee … Mohammed Darrell D’Silva … Immigration Officer See all » Sotigui Kouyaté … Shinti Abi Gouhad … Shinti’s Son Ade-Yemi Ajibade … Mini Cab Driver Barber Ali … Sweatshop Foreman Yusuf Altin … Sweatshop Boy Fisun Burgess … Factory Worker Zlatko Buric … Ivan Kriss Dosanjh … Asian Businessman Noma Dumezweni … Celia Jeillo Edwards … Hospital Cleaning Lady Rita Hamill … Pharmacy Nurse Nizwar Karanj … Mini Cab Driver Jeffery Kissoon … Cab Controller Michael Mellinger … German Man Sabina Michael … German Woman Deobia Oparei … Mini Cab Driver Israel Aduramo … Mini Cab Driver Adrian Scarborough … The Doctor Naomi Simpson … Shinti’s Grandaughter Jemanesh Solomon … Shinti’s Daughter-in-Law Ron Stenner … Pharmacist Jean-Philippe Écoffey … Jean-Luc
Director	Stephen Frears — “Sammy and Rosie Get Laid,” “Philomena”, “Mrs. Henderson Presents,” “The Queen,” “High Fidelity”
Producer	BBC Films Celador Films See all » Jonescompany Productions Julie Goldstein … executive producer Robert Jones … producer Teresa Moneo … executive producer Allon Reich … executive producer Tracey Scoffield … executive producer Tracey Seaward … producer Paul Smith … executive producer David M. Thompson … executive producer
Distributor	Miramax, a division of beIN Media Group

“Some things are too dangerous to keep secret.”

Here’s what the distributor says about their film: “Okwe, a kind-hearted Nigerian physician, and Senay, a Turkish chambermaid, work at the same West London hotel, a locus of drug dealing and prostitution run by Senor Sneaky. When Okwe discovers a human heart blocking a toilet in a just-vacated room, he uncovers something far more sinister than just a common crime.”

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See list of Relevant Issues—questions-and-answers.

Movie Critics

…an exciting but brainy, cross-cultural thriller about modern London and life in a contemporary urban pressure cooker, and it depends more on plot, character and atmosphere than it does on chases and gunfire…

Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune

…stirs mystery in social commentary… smart direction, give the movie a gripping edge, both as biting social commentary and as a pulse-pounding mystery…

Margaret A. McGurk, The Cincinnati Enquirer

…Despite its provocative title… “Dirty Pretty Things” doesn’t crackle with intensity. Although the film delves into an interesting topic—black marketeers trading in human flesh—the approach is far too clinical… it’s definitely more dirty than pretty.

Bill Muller, The Arizona Republic

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