- Overview
Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their home in Uganda, twentysomething Mina finds herself helping to run a motel in the faraway land of Mississippi. It's there that a passionate romance with the charming Black carpet cleaner Demetrius challenges the prejudices of their conservative families and exposes the rifts between the region's Indian and African American communities.
- Release Date
18 September 1991
- DirectingMira Nair
- Budget
$8,000,000.00
- Revenue
$7,310,000.00
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