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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.
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.
- (18K)
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Stephen Frears
- 1986-04-04
Omar Ali is a young man living in 1980s London. His father, Hussein, is a Pakistani journalist who lives in London but hates Britain and its international politics. His dissatisfaction with the world and a family tragedy has caused his alcoholism to take over, so that Omar has to take care of him.
In My Beautiful Laundrette, Hanif Kureishi explores the search for personal and sexual identity through the character of Omar, a young Pakistani man living in London. Omar struggles to reconcile his traditional upbringing with his desire to live a more liberal and open life.
A movie like this lives or dies with its performances, and the actors in “My Beautiful Laundrette” are a fascinating group of unknowns, with one exception: Shirley Anne Field, who plays Rachel, and whom you may recognize from “Saturday Night and Sunday Morning” and other British films.
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.
- (47)
- Comedy, Drama, LGBTQ+
- R
My Beautiful Laundrette was originally made for UK television’s Channel 4. That network, made possible by the deregulation of the Margaret Thatcher era, ironically ended up giving voice to those hardest hit by Thatcher’s economic policies.
