Young people of British citizenship but of Asian heritage finding it hard to establish a solid place in society.
Heard the plot before? I'm sorry, it maybe a serious subject but I have seen so many movies of its ilk that Everywhere and Nowhere just bored me.
Ok, it is fair to say that East Is East and Patiala House did not have the edgy 'urban' feel of Menhaj Huda's movie.
But the change of backdrop could not cover the stereotypes which were on view here.
Ash (James Floyd) is a student and aspiring nightclub DJ who is living with his domineering, traditional brother, his wife and kids.
His sister is in a relationship with a black guy but there is no way she will have the bottle to tell her family.
Meanwhile, his friends are all leading double lives (one is a would-be extremist, another is a ladies' man who is promised to a girl in a village in Pakistan).
Inevitably they are all keen on cricket, oh and I forgot the obligatory corner shop.
In other words, while Everywhere and Nowhere attempts to bring a thorny old subject to a modern dimension, it cannot lose the shackles of traditional thinking itself.
Floys, as the anguished Ash is perfectly decent but there are some top performers here who are hopelessly underused - for example, Adam Deacon, Art Malik and Saeed Jaffrey.
And, to be honest, I haven't got much else to add.
Well, I haven't now. I originally wrote my review two days ago but it has been wiped by Blogger's meltdown and any other points I wanted to make have been forgotten because the film was so utterly unmemorable.
What was it worth?
A measly 4/10.
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