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Budget. £650,000 [3] Box office. $3 million [4] 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.
- $3 million
- Sarah Radclyffe
- £650,000
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.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Stephen Frears
- 1986-04-04
Dec 1, 2015 · ‘You’re the son of a poet laureate – why are you speaking like that?’ … Daniel Day-Lewis and Gordon Warnecke in the 1985 hit, My Beautiful Laundrette, directed by Stephen Frears.
Sep 19, 2015 · I was also surprised to see such a rich and textured perspective of class dynamics, which is easier to pick up on in hindsight than it was in the 1980s. Not only is My Beautiful Laundrette a superb film, but it is a document of its time. Film Rating: 8/10. Supplements. Stephen Frears: 2015 conversation with producer Colin MacCabe
Aug 29, 2009 · My Beautiful Laundrette. Sat 29 Aug 2009 19.01 EDT. T he mood of south London in the 1980s - oppressively grey but shot through with racial and political tensions - is vividly captured by...
Jul 22, 2015 · My Beautiful Laundrette, written by Hanif Kureishi and directed by Stephen Frears, threw a Molotov cocktail of urban chaos, polemical ire, spiky comedy, and mixed-race queer sex into the so-called British Film Renaissance of 1984–86.
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.
