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My Beautiful Laundrette is a 1985 British romantic comedy-drama film directed by Stephen Frears from a screenplay by Hanif Kureishi. The film was one of the first films released by Working Title Films.
Apr 4, 1986 · My Beautiful Laundrette: Directed by Stephen Frears. With Daniel Day-Lewis, Richard Graham, Winston Graham, Dudley Thomas. An ambitious Pakistani Briton and his white boyfriend strive for success and hope when they open a glamorous laundromat.
- (17K)
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Stephen Frears
- 1986-04-04
The laundry in question is a storefront operation in one of the seedier areas of London, and it is losing money when a rich Pakistani decides to entrust its management to his nephew. But this is not the saga of a laundry. It is the story of two kinds of outsiders in modern London.
In a seedy corner of London, Omar (Gordon Warnecke), a young Pakistani, is given a run-down laundromat by his uncle (Saeed Jaffrey), who hopes to turn it into a successful business.
- (45)
- Stephen Frears
- R
- Daniel Day-Lewis
My Beautiful Laundrette is set within the Asian community in South London during the Thatcher years, and displays those values of money but 'anybody can make it.' Omar gains the running of his uncle Nasser's laundrette.
A Pakistani Briton renovates a rundown laundrette with his male lover while dealing with drama within his family, the local Pakistani community, and a persistent mob of skinheads.
- 98 min
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My Beautiful Laundrette: Postcolonialism in the Wash Stephen Frears brings a playful and shimmering cinematic quality to Hanif Kureishi’s multilayered script about a Pakistani immigrant community in Margaret Thatcher–era London.
