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Dirty Pretty Things (
2002) is a
movie directed by
Stephen Frears and written by
Steven Knight, a
drama about two
illegal immigrants in
London. It was produced by the
Celador Films production company.
The film was nominated for an
Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and won a
British Independent Film Award for "Best Independent British Film" in
2003.
Plot
Okwe (
Chiwetel Ejiofor) is a
Nigerian who drives a
cab in London during the day and mans the front desk of a hotel by night — chewing
khat (a
stimulant) to keep awake. Formerly a
doctor in Africa, he's pressed into giving medical aid to other poor immigrants — including fellow cab drivers with
venereal diseases.
Okwe shares an apartment with Senay (
Audrey Tautou), a
Turkish Muslim woman who works as a maid in the same hotel. The two immigrants form a hesitant friendship, but their situation becomes untenable when immigration police begin to pursue her. She quits the hotel and takes a job in a clothing
sweatshop, where the owner forces her, a virgin, to perform
oral sex upon him under threat of reporting her. After initially enduring this humiliation, she bites his genitals and flees both the factory and her apartment — taking refuge in a morgue with a friend of Okwe's.
The manager of the hotel, Juan (
Sergi López), runs an illegal operation at the hotel where immigrants sell a
kidney in exchange for passports with new identities. Learning of Okwe's past as a doctor, he pressures him to harvest kidneys, but he refuses.
In desperation, Senay agrees to exchange a kidney for a passport. Juan forces her to have sex with him before permitting her to undergo the operation. Upon learning of Senay's plan, Okwe tells Juan that he'll perform the operation to ensure her safety. However, Okwe and Senay actually drug Juan, harvest
his kidney, and sell it to Juan's contact — having also obtained their new passports from Juan.
The film ends with Senay and Okwe in the airport. Although they've fallen in love over the course of their trials, he must return to his young daughter in Nigeria (where his wife had been killed and he'd been wrongly accused of the murder) and she leaves to start a new life in
New York City.
Cast
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