In the 60s, Julia, recently separated from her poet husband, travels to Morocco to find the answers to life, taking her two daughters, Lucy and Bea, along with her for the ride. The only problem is that Julia doesn't have much money, and relies on pay-outs from her ex-husband, which unfortunately don't come on a regular basis, and the occasional job. When she meets Bilal, a local man, things seem to look up, but he proves to be as useless as she is at earning money. A trip takes them out of Marrakech, to help Julia with her study of Sufism, but it is soon clear that their lack of money means that they could find themselves in serious danger. Will she find what she is ...  Read the complete review

Hideous Kinky was adapted from a book of the same name which was written by Esther Freud (grand-daughter of Sigmud Freud) and published in 1992. The novel was based on the author's real life experience of living in Morocco as a child and in the film the story is told from the eyes of Lucy, the younger daughter. The film was released in 1998 and was directed by Gillies MacKinnon. Julia moves out to Morocco in the 1970s with 6 year old Lucy and 8 year old Bea, her daughters. Her estranged husband, a writer/poet is rather erratic with sending her child support payments so Julia, in fact, more often than not, he sends nothing so Julia has to struggle for ...  Read the complete review

Hideous Kinky is a film about exploration, discovery, and a bit of love thrown in for good measure. Set in the 1970s in Morocco, it follows single mother Julia and her two daughters Bea and Lucy as they seek to discover a new way of life. Based on the novel by Esther Freud, written in 1992, this 1998 film showed a bit of promise from reading the brief synopsis and judging by the two leads. Kate Winslet plays Julia, and while she has played some excellent roles in the past, she also manages to play some stinkers, too, and this seemed to me to be one of them. Julia is a very self-centred woman, and some of the acts she does are very unbecoming a mother. She ...  Read the complete review

I really enjoyed the book by Esther Freud that this film is based upon however like so many film adaptions of books this one failed to live up to my expectations and was a rather disappointing drama. The film stars Kate Winslett as Julia who sets out with her two daughters on a voyage of discovery on a trip to Morocco, the lead character is not a very likeable person as she is rather selfish and she is hardly a role model of a mother. She starts an affair with a man called Bilal played by Said Taghmaoui who like Julia is rather self centered and drifting through life. The two daughters are Bea and Lucy played by Bella Riza and Carrie Mullan respectively and ...  Read the complete review