Hideous Kinky (film)

Hideous Kinky
Hideous Kinky film poster
Directed byGillies MacKinnon
Screenplay byBilly MacKinnon
Based onHideous Kinky
by Esther Freud
Produced byAnn Scott
Starring
CinematographyJohn de Borman
Edited byPia Di Ciaula
Music byJohn E. Keane
Production
companies
AMLF
Arts Council of England
BBC Films
The Film Consortium
Greenpoint Films
L Films
Distributed byAMLF (France)
United International Pictures (United Kingdom)[2]
Release date
  • 2 October 1998 (1998-10-02)
Running time
98 min.
CountriesFrance[1]
United Kingdom[1]
LanguagesEnglish
French
Arabic
Budget£3.2 million[3]
Box office$1,263,279 (Domestic)[4]

Hideous Kinky is a 1998 drama film directed by Scottish director Gillies MacKinnon. Based on Esther Freud's semi-autobiographical 1992 novel of the same name, it follows a young English mother who moves from London to Morocco with her two young daughters in the early 1970s. The film stars Kate Winslet and French-Moroccan actor Saïd Taghmaoui. The soundtrack mixes original music with songs from the 1960s, including tracks from Canned Heat, Richie Havens, and The Incredible String Band.

  1. ^ a b "Hideous Kinky". BFI. Archived from the original on 9 March 2018. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
  2. ^ "Hideous Kinky (1998)". BBFC. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  3. ^ Walker, Alexander (2005). Icons in the Fire: The Rise and Fall of Practically Everyone in the British Film Industry 1984-2000. Orion Books. p. 297.
  4. ^ "Hideous Kinky at Box Office Mojo". Retrieved 29 September 2010.