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    Review: Home becomes a prison in the tense cross-cultural drama 'What Will People Say'

    by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times Aug 06, 2018 4 minutes

    You can pinpoint the moment early on in "What Will People Say," Iram Haq's tense and harrowing new movie, when 16-year-old Nisha (Maria Mozhdah) stops being a person in the eyes of her family and suddenly becomes a problem - an outcast, a liability, a shameful wound in their side.

    It happens when her father, Mirza (Adil Hussain), finds her with a boy in her bedroom one night and flies into a rage. Leaping to the conclusion that the two have had sex, he savagely beats the boy, Daniel (Isak Lie Harr), and all but disowns his daughter on the spot. It's

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