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I Can't Think Straight

Duration:

82 min | Germany:85 min (European Film Market)

Genres:

Drama | Romance

IMDB rate:

6.7

Director:

Shamim Sarif

Awards:

3 wins & 1 nomination

Details

Country: UK

Filming Locations: London, England, UK

Earnings

Opening Weekend: $15,239 (USA) (23 November 2008)

Gross: $39,373 (USA) (13 September 2009)

Cast

Actor

Character

Anya Lahiri

Lisa Ray

Tala

Sheetal Sheth

Leyla

Antonia Frering

Reema

Dalip Tahil

Omar

Nina Wadia

The Housekeeper

Ernest Ignatius

Sam

Siddiqua Akhtar

Maya

Amber Rose Revah

Yasmin

Kimberly Jaraj

Zina

Sam Vincenti

Kareem

Rez Kempton

Ali

Darwin Shaw

Hani (as Daud Shah)

George Tardios

Uncle Ramzi

Ishwar Maharaj

Sami

Gabrielle Amies

Aunty Ramzi

Jessica Allsop

Jennifer

Orly Jaraj

Catty Woman

Antoinette Claessens

Female Polo Player / Party Guest

Hanan Kattan

Jordan Lecturer

Ian Mann

Jeff

Steve Motion

Head Waiter

Jay Karik

Pedicure Girl

Dipti Patel

Hair Girl

Nina Hautumm

Secretary

Cuba

Handsome Waiter 1

Dan Balcaban

Handsome Waiter 2 (as Daniel Balcaban)

Brij Patel

Jordan House Staff 1 - Ravi

Ari Gill

Jordan House Staff 2

Karen Frank

Book Signing Fan 1

Ethan Sarif-Kattan

Child in Park 1

Leonie Casanova

Polo Spectator 1

Sandra Watfa

Polo Spectator 2

Alastair Hepher

Ramzi's Companion in Bar

Jess Imerman

Zina's Boyfriend in Picture

Louise McManus

Mother in Park

Shamim Sarif

Book Signing Fan 2

Luca Sarif-Kattan

Child in Park 2

Rebecca James

Dinner Guest (uncredited)

Daniel Jefferson

Lecture Audience Member (uncredited)

Christina Neferis

Wife of Hani (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

The 2 children in the park at the end of the film are Shamim and Hanan's children.

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Second movie where Sheetal Sheth and Lisa Ray play two women who fall in love each other, the first one was The World Unseen also directed by Shamim Sarif.

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The 2nd woman in line at the book signing is writer/director Shamim Sarif. She asks for the inscription "Amina", which is the name of the character that Sheetal Sheth played in Shamim's next movie, The World Unseen (2007).

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Goofs

When Lisa Ray is reading the Arabic newspaper, she reads it left-to-right (like reading English) instead of right-to-left.

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When Leyla and Tala are sitting on the stairs in the park both are wearing black shoes. In the next scene when they are walking through the park Tala's shoes are ocher.

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Quotes

Tala: [writing a letter to Leyla] Every night I empty my heart, but by morning it's full again. Slowly, droplets of you seep in through the night's soft caress. But don't I overflow with thoughts of us, an aching pressure that gives me no respite. Love cannot be contained; the neat packaging of desire splits asunder, spilling crimson through my days, long languishing days that are now bruised, tender with yearning, spent searching for a fingerprint, a scent, a breath you left behind.

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Maya: Are you trying to kill me? Creeping into the house like a robber.

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Zina: You know, I think I found those weapons of mass destruction Bush was looking for. How clever of him to disguise them as two arab housewives.

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