Film

Room to Rent

2001 · 1h 35m · Comedy

IMDb

6.2

Ali is a young Egyptian screenwriter determined to succeed in London, where he has been a student. He loves the artistic and political freedom, the colours, the music, the individualism. But he has little money, his student visa is about to expire and he has been thrown out of his lodgings. And so Ali moves in with a succession of eccentric and colourful London flatmates: Mark, a photographer with a very individual style, Linda, a young, blonde, very sexy model and Marilyn Monroe impersonator, and Miss Stevenson who is convinced that Ali is the reincarnation of her long dead Egyptian lover.

Saïd Taghmaoui

Ali

Juliette Lewis

Linda

Rupert Graves

Mark

Anna Massey

Sarah Stevenson

Clémentine Célarié

Vivienne

Liam Noble

Bouncer

Flaminia Cinque

Margreta

Karim Belkhadra

Ahmed

Maureen O'Farrell

Belly Dancer

Nayef Rashed

Naief

Badia Obaid

Ali's Mother

Nahar Sadayo

Ali's Sister

Adam El Hagar

Ali's Brother

Sahar Gadel-Kareem

Ali's Sister

Louis Hammond

Shobu Kapoor

Home Office Official

• Khaled El HagarDirector · Writer
• Amanda McKenzie StuartWriter
• Romain WindingDirector of Photography
• Safy BoutellaOriginal Music Composer
• Gigi AkokaCasting
• Sarah BirdCasting

Release date

June 22, 2001

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 35m

Genres

Comedy