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My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) | User Rating
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DVD Release Date
• R1: Jun 3, 2003
• R2: 10 Sep 2001
Budget $400,000
Running Time
1 hour, 37 minutes
Country UK
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Other Titles
• Mein wunderbarer Waschsalon (1986)
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Genre: Romance, Drama, Gay/Lesbian, Drugs, Buddies, Urban
Plot: MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE, directed by Stephen Frears, is a highly innovative and fantastical exploration of marginalized cultures in Thatcher-era London. Set in the Pakistani community of South London in the 1980s, the film focuses on two youths, friends from schooldays. Johnny (Daniel Day-Lewis) is a working-class white whose friends belong to the National Front, a fascist group whose members extol "white power" and bash immigrants. Omar (Gordon Warnecke), a homosexual Pakistani, lives with his leftist father who spends most of his time in bed drinking. Omar's wealthy uncle, Nasser (Saeed Jaffrey), is determined to give one of the family a (small) step up, and at first gives him a lowly garage job, and then hands Omar a rundown laundrette. Omar and Johnny become lovers and decide to convert the laundrette into "a Ritz among laundrettes," a gaudy, neon-lit storefront called "Powders" complete with aquarium, video games, potted plants and piped classical muzak. Johnny looks upon the laundrette as a lifeline on which to salvage his self-respect, while Omar sees it as just the beginning step on the long road toriches. A thoughtful and innovative portrait of modern contrasts in class, race, and sex, this film defined a generation of Londoners.
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Daniel Day-Lewis
Gangs of New York, The Last of the Mohicans, In the Name of the Father |
 | Saeed Jaffrey
Gandhi, The Man Who Would Be King, A Passage to India | Roshan Seth
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Gandhi, Vertical Limit | | | | Souad Faress
Bhaji on the Beach, Such a Long Journey, Promoted to Glory | |
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Stanley Myers
The Deer Hunter, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Witches | |
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