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A 2002 British thriller focusing on the lives of immigrants in London, directed by Stephen Frears and starring [[Chiwetel Ejiofor]] and [[Audrey Tautou]]. Okwe (Ejiofor) is an illegal immigrant from Nigeria who was a doctor in his native country but had to flee under mysterious circumstances to London. There, he supports himself by working as a cab driver by day and a hotel desk clerk by night, chewing khat leaves to stay awake throughout his long shifts. He rents a couch from one of his coworkers at the hotel, Senay (Tautou), a Turkish woman who, though she is in the United Kingdom legally, is forbidden to work under her status as an asylum seeker. His other acquaintances include Ivan (Zlatko Buric), a burly Russian who works as the doorman for the hotel, Juliette ([[Sophie Okonedo]]), a lower class English prostitute who meets her clients there, and Guo Yi (Benedict Wong), a Chinese doctor who works in a hospital mortuary and supplies Okwe with prescription drugs for the other illegals employed at his taxi company on the sly. Overseeing operations at the hotel is Juan (Sergi Lopez), a suave but shady Spaniard with his fingers in all manner of sleazy goings-on. |
A 2002 British thriller focusing on the lives of immigrants in London, directed by Stephen Frears and starring [[Chiwetel Ejiofor]] and [[Audrey Tautou]]. Okwe (Ejiofor) is an illegal immigrant from Nigeria who was a doctor in his native country but had to flee under mysterious circumstances to London. There, he supports himself by working as a cab driver by day and a hotel desk clerk by night, chewing khat leaves to stay awake throughout his long shifts. He rents a couch from one of his coworkers at the hotel, Senay (Tautou), a Turkish woman who, though she is in the United Kingdom legally, is forbidden to work under her status as an asylum seeker. His other acquaintances include Ivan (Zlatko Buric), a burly Russian who works as the doorman for the hotel, Juliette ([[Sophie Okonedo]]), a lower class English prostitute who meets her clients there, and Guo Yi (Benedict Wong), a Chinese doctor who works in a hospital mortuary and supplies Okwe with prescription drugs for the other illegals employed at his taxi company on the sly. Overseeing operations at the hotel is Juan (Sergi Lopez), a suave but shady Spaniard with his fingers in all manner of sleazy goings-on. |
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