Storyline
Based in a London suburb Mahmud Nasir lives with his wife, Saamiya, and two children, Rashid and Nabi. His son plans to marry Uzma, the step-daughter of Egyptian-born Arshad Al-Masri, a so-called 'Hate Cleric' from Waziristan, Pakistan. Mahmud, who is not exactly a devout Muslim, he drinks alcohol, and does not pray five times, but does agree that he will appease Arshad, without whose approval the marriage cannot take place. Shortly thereafter Mahmud, while going over his recently deceased mother's documents, will find out that he was adopted, his birth parents were Jewish, and his name is actually Solly Shimshillewitz.
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Omid Djalili, Richard Schiff, Matt Lucas, Chris Wilson, Igal Naor, David Schneider, Stewart Scudamore, Jason Salkey, Paul Kaye, Archie Panjabi, Shobu Kapoor, James Floyd, Bhasker Patel, Sartaj Garewal, Amit Shah, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Michele Austin, Christian Lees, Jonah Lees, Miranda Hart, Leah Fatania, Stuart Antony, Scott Walters, Mina Anwar, Soraya Radford, Ravin J. Ganatra, Niraj Naik, Madison Cole, Rod Silvers, Jonathan Tafler, Joanna Brookes, Syreeta Kumar
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Reviews
70
The director, Josh Appignanesi, has a nice sense of comic timing, slipping in some of the best jokes when you least expect them.
60
Empire
Funny and unthreatening, it's not subversive but it's plenty of fun.
60
Variety
The Infidel takes some all-too-predictable detours into moralizing and sentimentality, but remains consistently sharp as long as it sticks to its acerbic tone and saucy comic sensibility.
60
An admirably cagey effort to mine humor from the thorny cultural and racial divide that is Muslim-Jewish relations.
50
A would-be provocative satire that too often settles for sitcom-grade silliness, The Infidel represents an opportunity wasted.
