Hideous Kinky
★ 5.9 · 1999 · 98m · Romance · Drama
In 1972, disenchanted about the dreary conventions of English life, 25-year-old Julia heads for Morocco with her daughters, six-year-old Lucy and precocious eight-year-old Bea.
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