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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0883929014323
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: BBC Warner
Manufacturer: BBC Warner
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: BBC Warner
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 27, 2008
Running Time: 238 minutes
Sales Rank: 23811
Studio: BBC Warner
Theatrical Release Date: 1993
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Product Description:
Before Velvet Goldmine there was Buddha of Suburbia. The coming of age story of Karim an assimilated Indian in London during the swinging seventies. Winner of seven international film awards. Soundtrack by David Bowie.Running Time: 238 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/BBC UPC: 883929014323 Manufacturer No: 1000037775
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Finally on DVD
"The Buddha of Suburbia"
Finally on DVD
Amos Lassen
We finally get one of my favorite movies on DVD, "The Buddha of Suburbia". It has amazing performances and Naveen Andrews shows us depth in his characterization of a young man coming to terms with his identity in the world of the 1970's that is going through rapid changes.
Set in England, the film spans a decade, from the early 70's to the 80's when Margaret Thatcher became prime minister of Great Britain. ... Read More
Rating: - Five stars - four hours went by too fast!
This movie (miniseries, actually) remains on my top ten list of favorite films. The writing, the acting , the storyline, everything, just leaves me wanting to watch more (after four hours, that is saying a lot!). This film is inventive and captivating without a lot of special effects or high budget - it is just good. The basis of the story is the coming of age in 1960's London, of Kareem, (played by Naveen Andrews, from the English Patient) who is the son of and Englishwoman and Indian man. His place in ... Read More
Rating: - Buddha of Erotica
Wonderful BBC film adaptation of the Hanif Kureishi novel of the same name. The translation to the small screen worked well primarily because Kureishi himself co-wrote the screenplay.
A satirical witty look at bi-racial issues in the teeming London (and its suburbs) of the 1970's. The film is unexperimental on a cinematographic level but carried brilliantly by a well writen screenplay and superior acting.
Narrated from the perspective of a selfish young man, this is on the surface ... Read More
Rating: - Kureshi is spectacular!
Hanif Kureshi is one of the best contemporary authors on the shelf. the BBC's interpretation of his book does him justice! Buy it!
Rating: - superb acting by the Asian-Indian Al Pacino
This movie documents the struggle of Asian-Pakistani immigrants to Britain and how racism, culture and Britain in the 70s and 80s affected this family and the main character Kareem. In many ways this movie reminds me of a American movie Mi Familia that documents the life of a Mexican-American family throught the 70s to present day. It also shows that second generation people have many problems to encounter besides the usual racism and stereotypes. Naveen Andrews is a great actor and has done much for ... Read More
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