My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
- Directed by
- Stephen Frears
- Genre
- drama film, comedy drama, romantic comedy, LGBTQ-related film
- Country
- Australia, United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- Rated
- R
- Rating
- 6.7 of 10 from 316 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
In 1980s London, a young Pakistani-British man runs a launderette with his rebellious white childhood friend. Their lives and romance unfold amid racial tensions and economic struggle under Thatcher.
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What happens
My Beautiful Laundrette is a 1985 British romantic comedy-drama film directed by Stephen Frears and written by Hanif Kureishi. It was one of the first films released by Working Title Films. Set in London during the Thatcher years, the film reflects the fraught relationships between members of the Pakistani and English communities at that time. The story focuses on Omar (Gordon Warnecke), a British man of Pakistani origin, and his reunion and eventual romance with his childhood friend Johnny (Daniel Day-Lewis), now a street punk. The two become the caretakers and business managers of a launderette. The British Film Institute ranked My Beautiful Laundrette as the 50th-greatest British film of the 20th century. It was adapted into a stage play in 2002 and 2019. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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