My Beautiful Laundrette

  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Romance
11/16/1985
98
R

A sharp, sophisticated, funny, sexy, compassionate picture.

A Pakistani Briton renovates a rundown laundrette with his male lover while dealing with drama within his family, the local Pakistani community, and a persistent mob of skinheads.

Revenue:
$2,451,545
Budget:
$860,000

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  • Geronimo1967

    This 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 a job working for his wealthy uncle Nasser (Saeed Jeffrey). Now this man is perhaps an epitome of the successful,  conservative voting, entrepreneur. He li...

    July 16, 2025

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