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My Beautiful Laundrette. 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. The film is set in London during the Thatcher years, as reflected in the complex, and often comical, relationships ...
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
There is some doubt, however, about whether Omar will ever get married. Earlier in the film, we have witnessed a strange scene. Omar and friends have been stopped by a gang of punk neofascist Paki-bashers, when Omar walks up fearlessly to their leader, Johnny, and greets him with affection. We discover that the two young men had been lovers and ...
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. Soon after ...
- (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. He is helped by his friend Johnny who is an outsider, white but not entirely accepted by either the white or Asian Londoners.
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My Beautiful Laundrette. Stephen Frears was at the forefront of the British cinematic revival of the mid-1980s, and the delightfully transgressive My Beautiful Laundrette is his greatest triumph of the period. Working from a richly layered script by Hanif Kureishi, who was soon to be an internationally renowned writer, Frears tells an uncommon ...