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My Beautiful Laundrette
1985 1h 38m R
Drama
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Comedy
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Romance
6.8
98%
74%
67%
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An ambitious Pakistani Briton and his white boyfriend strive for success and hope when they open a glamorous laundromat.
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Directed By
Stephen Frears
Written By
Hanif Kureishi
Studio
Working Title Films
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SAF Productions
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Film4 Productions
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Cast of My Beautiful Laundrette
Gordon Warnecke
Omar Ali
Daniel Day-Lewis
Johnny Burfoot
Roshan Seth
Hussein "Papa" Ali
Saeed Jaffrey
Nasser Ali
Derrick Branche
Salim N. Ali
Rita Wolf
Tania N. Ali
Souad Faress
Cherry N. Ali
Shirley Anne Field
Rachel
Richard Graham
Genghis
Garry Cooper
Squatter
Charu Bala Chokshi
Bilquis
Persis Maravala
Nasser's Elder Daughter
Nisha Kapur
Nasir's Younger Daughter
Walter Donohue
Dick O'Donnell
Neil Cunningham
Englishman
Gurdial Sira
Zaki
Stephen Marcus
Moose
Ram John Holder
Poet
Dawn Archibald
Gang Member #1
Jonathan Moore
Gang Member #2
Gerard Horan
Telephone Man
Bhasker Patel
Tariq
Badi Uzzaman
Dealer
Ayub Khan-Din
Student
Dulice Liecier
Girl in Disco
Chris Pitt
Kid #1
Kerryann White
Kid #2
Colin Campbell
Madame Butterfly Man
Sheila Chitnis
Zaki's Wife
Winston Graham
Jamaican #1
Dudley Thomas
Jamaican #2
My Beautiful Laundrette Reviews
Los Angeles Times
Sheila Benson
It's Daniel Day Lewis, taut, intelligent, erotic, who is an emerging star.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
It is with some relief that we realize it isn't "about" anything; it's simply some weeks spent with some characters in a way that tells us more about some aspects of modern Britain than we've seen before.
New York Times
Vincent Canby
A fascinating, eccentric, very personal movie.
Chicago Tribune
Sid Smith
Director Stephen Frears and screenwriter Hanif Kureishi are better at depicting a new milieu than in making an important or innovative statement.
Antagony & Ecstasy
Tim Brayton
Would that all socially relevant cinematic documents were also such good movies!
Scene-Stealers.com
Eric Melin
... unfolds with a refreshing honesty and a sense of surprise to it; being handled more like something embedded within the characters rather than a plot point thrown in just to bring up an issue or an easy conflict point.
Slant Magazine
Eric Henderson
While Personal Best and Making Love have faded into obscurity as The Celluloid Closet footnotes, My Beautiful Laundrette has become a benchmark in the 80s new queer cinema.
Film Frenzy
Matt Brunson
Daniel Day-Lewis enjoyed a breakout year stateside thanks to his contrasting performances here and as a supercilious dandy in A Room with a View.
Detroit Free Press
Catherine Rambeau
A brutally funny social comedy about the racial and social consequences of a Pakistani and an Englishman going into business and becoming lovers.
Creative Loafing
Matt Brunson
The odious Margaret Thatcher and her crippling policies made sizable targets for many British filmmakers during the 1980s and beyond, and few hit the bulls-eye as squarely as screenwriter Hanif Kureishi and director Stephen Frears with this indie hit.
Washington Post
Paul Attanasio
"My Beautiful Laundrette" is quirky and fresh and ambitious and pretty much everything a movie should be, except good.
TIME Magazine
Richard Corliss
Fast, bold, harsh and primitive like a prodigious student film with equal parts promise and threat.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
This is a uniquely plausible portrait of life in England, yet its appeal isn't limited to social realism -- it also has a twist of buoyant fantasy and romance
Orlando Sentinel
Jay Boyar
This new British picture raises enough issues for a half-dozen more conventional movies. And though this approach makes for a structure that's a little shaky, the film somehow holds together.
Variety
Variety Staff
As always, director Stephen Frears does a superb job of work when given a good script, and this is a very good script.
Film Inquiry
Amanda Jane Stern
Not only is it a brilliant take on star-crossed lovers, it doesn't take the twists and turns you'd expect a story like this to take.
Huffington Post
Brandon Judell
Besides being revelatory in its depiction of a gay relationship, its respectful, yet unfawning, look at immigrants trying to make it in a new country is straight out of the headlines.
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Candice Russell
There isn't a performance in this film that is less than excellent.
New Yorker
Pauline Kael
It's an enormous pleasure to see a movie that's really about something, and that doesn't lay on any syrupy coating to make the subject go down easily.
Stream on Demand
Sean Axmaker
It's a grungy yet dynamic portrait of race and prejudice in the Thatcher-era London of East Indian immigrants and neo-Nazi gangs.
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