Hideous Kinky 1999, Rated R Columbia/Tristar Home Video

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Starring Kate Winslet, et al. Released to DVD on October 26, 1999.

After the enormous success of Titanic, discerning movie goers began to wonder what Kate Winslet, the lovely and talented actress who portrayed Rose, would be doing to follow up her success in Jim Cameron's billion dollar hit. The answer was something shocking, kinky, different and hideous; director Gillies Mackinnon's adaptation of Esther Freud's autobiographical novel, Hideous Kinky. Set during the early 1970's, Winslet plays Julia, a single mother of two girls, Bea (Bella Riza) and Lucy (Carrie Mullan) living in Morocco. As the story unfolds, we learn that Julia has recently moved to Marrakech with her children, leaving her abusive husband at home in England. While in Africa, Julia meets Bilal (Said Taghmaoui), a poor street performer, and together the four travel through northern Africa, with Julia looking for answers to the curve life has thrown her. Shot on location in Morocco, the Hideous Kinky production is both beautiful and compelling, as we sympathize with Julia's situation and are intrigued by the place she travels to escape her problems.