My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) (original) (raw)

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 writer Hanif Kureishi, soon to be internationally renowned, Frears tells an uncommon love story that takes place between a young South London Pakistani man (Gordon Warnecke), who decides to open an upscale laundromat to make his family proud, and his childhood friend, a skinhead (Daniel Day-Lewis, in a breakthrough role), who volunteers to help make his dream a reality. ...(more)

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 writer Hanif Kureishi, soon to be internationally renowned, Frears tells an uncommon love story that takes place between a young South London Pakistani man (Gordon Warnecke), who decides to open an upscale laundromat to make his family proud, and his childhood friend, a skinhead (Daniel Day-Lewis, in a breakthrough role), who volunteers to help make his dream a reality. This culture-clash comedy is also a subversive work of social realism, which dares to address racism, homophobia, and sociopolitical marginalization in Margaret Thatcher�s England. (less)

Director: Stephen Frears
Writer: Hanif Kureishi
Starring: Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth, Daniel Day-Lewis, Stephen Marcus, Richard Graham, Shirley Anne Field
Producers: Tim Bevan, Sarah Radclyffe

» See full cast & crew

Blu-ray reviews

12
fans

1006
Blu-ray
collections

121
DVD
collections

22
Digital
collections

24
iTunes
collections

5
Prime
collections

| | My rating | 6.9073% like it | | ----------- | --------------- |

Disobedience (2017) 6.6 199Disobedience2017 Weekend (2011) 7.7 319Weekend2011 Call Me by Your Name (2017) 8 1,020Call Me by Your Name2017 Howards End (1992) 7.9 663Howards End1992 Maurice (1987) 8 172Maurice1987 God's Own Country (2017) 7.7 132God's Own Country2017 Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) 7 204Sunday Bloody Sunday1971 Laurence Anyways (2012) 7 67Laurence Anyways2012
Brief Encounter (1945) 8.2 601Brief Encounter1945 The Go-Between (1971) 7.4 102The Go-Between1971 The Last of England (1988) 6.7 15The Last of England1988 Absolute Beginners (1986) 5.7 98Absolute Beginners1986 Wuthering Heights (2011) 6.6 79Wuthering Heights2011 Heimat: A Chronicle of Germany (1984) 7.7 34Heimat: A Chronicle of Germany1984 The Souvenir (2019) 6.5 97The Souvenir2019 Carol (2015) 7.8 639Carol2015

Show more titles »« Show less titles

Similar titles suggested by members

| Brokeback Mountain (2005)Brokeback Mountain2005 +1 | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |