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Hideous Kinky

A journey to love.

1999 · 1h 38m · R Drama, Romance
Directed by Gillies MacKinnon

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Overview

In 1972, disenchanted about the dreary conventions of English life, 25-year-old Julia heads for Morocco with her daughters, six-year-old Lucy and precocious eight-year-old Bea.

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66%
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Fresh

The fusion of dream sequences and evocative landscapes makes the characters' feverish sense of living at the edge of reality contagious.

Lisa Alspector, Chicago Reader
Fresh

Kate Winslet, luscious in a brilliantly colored caftan and flushed from the heat of an African sun, makes a beautiful hippie, circa 1972, in Hideous Kinky.

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
Fresh

Kate Winslet continues an uninterrupted line of fine performances with the modest yet affecting Hideous Kinky.

Lisa Nesselson, Variety
Fresh

MacKinnon draws terrific performances from all involved (Winslet bravely refusing to court our sympathies), lets character, mood and meaning take precedence over story, and assembles a great music track as a bonus. Spot on.

Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh

It augurs well for the long-term integrity of her career that Winslet in this movie doesn't try to ingratiate herself with the audience.

Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture

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