Product Details

• Actors: Susan Fleetwood, Naveen Andrews, David Bamber, Harish Patel, Brenda Blethyn
• Directors: Roger Michell
• Writers: Hanif Kureishi
• Producers: Anna Kalnars, Kevin Loader
• Format: Box set, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: 20th Century Fox
• VHS Release Date: June 3, 1997
• Run Time: 222 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6304457952
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #359,954 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Five stars - four hours went by too fast!, March 16, 2003

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Kasey M. Moctezuma "parisgirl" (San Diego, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Buddha of Suburbia [VHS] (VHS Tape)

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 English culture, in Indian culture, among his respective extended families on each side, as well as his place in life - exploring his career options, his [body], etc. - make this a thoroughly enjoyable experience. This movie is very entertaining and quite funny, especially when Kareem's ... father decides to jump on the East-West Hindu yoga and spirituality bandwagon of the sixties to make money. I just cannot describe all of the amusing and touching scenes from this film that make it such a gem. Very well made, and it has a very good soundtrack as well, featuring some good David Bowie songs. This film is a must-see.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Movie, June 23, 1999

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MarcG "MarcG" (Michigan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Buddha of Suburbia [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I loved it. Fantastic attention to detail with its 70's setting (Walnut Whip package, teenager room walls, the cars...) Humorous. Insightful, enlightening. Lovely how this care free-drifter type grows assertive and aimful after finding his niche in life. There is more to this movie then what is visually presented to you. Seemingly dynamic main character. I was sad when it was over, only because there wasn't a third tape to put in.

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Buddha of Erotica, February 10, 2002

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"umd_cyberpunk" (MA, United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Buddha of Suburbia [VHS] (VHS Tape)

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 a tale of a suburban London youth trying to get laid and make it in the world.

Issues of family and commitment are looked at with a subtlety that is refreshing in a world of films that often try to beat you over the head with their moralizations.

Karim is confussed about the world around him (as young people all are) and trying to balance loyalty to his quirky family with the duality of his racially mixed background. All of this is set upon a backdrop of a young man trying to find sex and excitement and his place in the world.