Don't let this diamond-bright gem slip between the cracks. Hanif Kureishi, best known for My Beautiful Launderette and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, wrote the screenplay, about the cultural conflict between a father and son. It's been twenty-five years since Parvez (Om Puri) left Pakistan for England, where he supports his wife and son by driving a taxi. Parvez's assimilation of Western culture includes scotch, Louis Armstrong records and an affair with a prostitute, Bettina, well played by Hilary and Jackie Oscar nominee Rachel Griffiths. Although Parvez struggles against racism, those battles seem small next to the war waged against him by his teenage son, Farid (Akbar Kurtha), who turns on his father and his adopted land to join a sect of Islamic fundamentalists. Director Udayan Prasad is scrupulously fair about the feelings of all involved, but it's Parvez who draws most on our sympathies in this moving, painfully funny film. In Om Puri's award-caliber performance, the price of happiness is rendingly observed.

“Too Close”

Next was formed in Minneapolis when the uncle of Terry "T-Low" and Raphael "Tweety" Brown, who was a gospel choir director, introduced the brothers to Robert Lavelle "R.L." Huggar. Sounds of Blackness singer Ann Nesby groomed the R&B group before handing them over to Naughty by Nature's KayGee, who wrote and produced "Too Close." The idea for the song was sparked "from a conversation we had with several girls at a nightclub," explained T-Low. "It's talking about the club scene, with guys getting out of hand and the female telling him to back up, asking, 'What are you doing?'"