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Dirty Pretty Things
"We are the people you do not see," says Okwe (Ejiofor), the morally-upstanding notable at the core of Stephen Frears' Dirty Pretty Things. He, along with his Turkish asylum-seeker flatmate Senay (Tautou, Am?©prevaricate), put the unseeable people; those that take the hogwash, clean pension rooms and drive mini-cabs while the end up of London sleeps. Okwe, without working papers, is holding down two jobs: a mini-taxi driver, using uppers to keep himself awake, as he spends his nights tending the front-desk in a grubby West London Hotel, managed by way of the aptly-named Sneaky (L??pez). When he discovers a human resolution blocking a john in one of the rooms, Okwe begins to get at suspicious - and he speedily discovers that Disingenuous has a precarious young sideline in peddl...
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