Polite Society

Name: Polite Society
Genre: Comedy, Action, Drama
Released: 2023-04-27
Duration: 104 min
Rating: 6.241

★ 6,2 /10 (230 Votes)

2023 EN 104 min

Overview

Martial artist-in-training Ria Khan believes she must save her older sister Lena from her impending marriage. After enlisting the help of her friends, Ria attempts to pull off the most ambitious of all wedding heists in the name of independence and sisterhood.

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Release date

27/04/2023

Votes

230

Popularity

3.4

Big trouble. Little sister.

Genres

Comedy Action Drama

Status

Released

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Runtime

104 min

Website

www.universalpictures.co.uk

Priya Kansara

Ria Khan

Ritu Arya

Lena

Shobu Kapoor

Fatima

Ella Bruccoleri

Alba

Seraphina Beh

Clara

Shona Babayemi

Kovacs

Nimra Bucha

Raheela

Jeff Mirza

Raff

Akshay Khanna

Salim Shah

Renu Brindle

Mrs. Nawaz

Rekha John-Cheriyan

Mrs. Abbas

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Sally Ann

Edith

Jenny Funnell

Ms. Spence

Sophie Aisling

Mrs. Iqbal

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Su McLaughlin

Mrs. Ahmed

Tia Dutt

Jezah

James McNicholas

Head Waiter

Eunice Huthart

Eunice Huthart (voice)

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FULL SPOILER-FREE REVIEW @ https://www.msbreviews.com/movie-reviews/polite-society-review-sundance-2023 "Polite Society looks straight out of a comic book. Endlessly energetic, witty humor, and packed with pretty great stunts. Nida Manzoor's quick edits, slow-motion, and stylistic title cards make this a distinctively fun feature debut. Not perfect, but the over-the-topness of it all brought it home for me." Rating: B

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I was really quite pleasantly surprised by this lively comedy that has as much to do with an episode of "Dr Who" as it does with the traditional family-based rom-com. "Lena" (Ritu Arya) falls hook line and sinker for the handsome (and wealthy) "Salim" (Akshay Khanna) but her savvy sister "Ria" (Prima Kansara) smells a rat. It's all going too smoothy, too quickly - and her otherwise quite rebellious sister has taken to wearing cardigans! The potential mother-in-law "Raheela" (the always over-dressed Nimra Bucha) exudes a certain menacing quality that soon has the sibling doing a bit of detectiv…

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