My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)


My Beautiful Laundrette
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6.9 IMDB rating
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Saeed Jaffrey

Saeed Jaffrey

Nasser Ali
Roshan Seth

Roshan Seth

Hussein Ali
Gordon Warnecke

Gordon Warnecke

Omar Ali
Derrick Branche

Derrick Branche

Salim N. Ali
Rita Wolf

Rita Wolf

Tania N. Ali
Souad Faress

Souad Faress

Cherry N. Ali


Written by
Hanif Kureishi

Hanif Kureishi

written by


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A very good movie

5 days, 2 hours ago at Jun 14 9:55
By now, it is pretty obvious that Daniel Day-Lewis is one of the best actors ever. Indeed, he has recently won his 3rd Academy award for the Best actor for his awesome performance in ‘Lincoln’. However, I often wonder if the people raving about him have actually seen his older movies. Anyway, Day-Lewis basically gave here his breakthrough performance and even though this movie is nowadays pret... read more
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Omar, son of a Pakistani immigrant, embarks on a venture to renovate his uncle's laundrette with the help of his childhood friend, ex-National Front member Johnny, with whom he has a gay relationship.
Release date : 1 April 1986
UPC: 027616869326
Drama (8), Laundry (3), Racism (3), Punk (3), 1985 (3), Sexuality (2), Cross-Cultural (2), Spiritual Cinema (2), Lgbt (2), Gay (2), Sex (2), Adapted (1), Interracial Relationship (1), SnP (1), Sort (1), Other Drama (1), Cross- Cultural (1), Gay Intrest (1), Politics. London (1), Classic (1)
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johanlefourbe posted a review 5 days, 2 hours ago

A very good movie

“By now, it is pretty obvious that Daniel Day-Lewis is one of the best actors ever. Indeed, he has recently won his 3rd Academy award for the Best actor for his awesome performance in ‘Lincoln’. However, I often wonder if the people raving about him have actually seen his older movies. Anyway, Day-Lewis basically gave here his breakthrough performance and even though this movie is nowadays pretty much forgotten, it is actually really good. The awesome thing, which was also pointed out by the great late Roger Ebert, is that the same year Daniel Day-Lewis also showed up in ‘A Room with a View’, another heralded movie released in 1985. The most striking thing is that those two roles were completely different (a street punk in 80’s UK and a repressed snobbish fellow in turn-of-the-twe” read more

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" D-Day Lewis plays gay, what more can I say? My Beautiful Laundrette examines the life of a young Pakistani dude in England who goes from taking care of his invalid alcoholic father, to making dough for his cousin and uncle by opening his very own, you guessed it, laundromat. Danny boy isn't really isn't the main star of the movie; Gordon Warnecke dominates the bulk of it, though Daniel does give an outstanding peformance as a former skinhead and the strongarming boyfriend of the protagon"


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