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)
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Relevant Issues
Copyright, Miramax

rape victims’ stories

shame and rape

refugees and immigrants

illegal immigration

illegal drugs

language barrier

organ theft

robberAnswers about robbery, stealing, and theft in the Bible

Morning After Pill

About murder in the Bible

Has death always existed? Why does it exist?

blackmail

What is justice? What does the Bible say about it?

What is the justice of God?

What is the Final Judgment? and What do I need to know about it?

loss of virginity

About prostitution in the Bible

What is sexual immorality?

SEXUAL LUST OUTSIDE OF MARRIAGE—Why does God strongly warn us about it?

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
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Director
Stephen Frears — “Sammy and Rosie Get Laid,” “Philomena”, “Mrs. Henderson Presents,” “The Queen,” “High Fidelity”
Producer
BBC Films
Celador Films
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Distributor

“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.


Viewer Comments
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