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My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
November 16, 19851h 38mEN
6.7
304 votes
Overview
A young Pakistani Briton manages a rundown laundrette with his lover while dealing with tension in his family, the local Pakistani community, and a persistent mob of skinheads.
Director
Stephen FrearsWriters
Where to Watch
Streaming availability for India
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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$860K
Revenue
$2.5M
Production Companies
Working Title FilmsSAF ProductionsChannel Four Films
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User Reviews
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7.0This was always my favourite of the early slew of films commissioned by Channel Four. At the time it was trendy to make sure that every film was “edgy” and determined to make some sort of social point about the supposed iniquities of “Thatcherism”. This one is a bit more subtle about that, presenting an hybrid of a love story married with a critique on a racially charged environment in which the thuggish and the venal were almost equally complicit. We meet the handsome young “Omar” (Gordon Warnecke) who has been affectionately looking after his dipso dad (Roshan Seth) for a while until he gets…
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