MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE (BLU-RAY)

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• Release Year: 1985
• Genre: Comedy; Drama; Romance
• Plot: Stephen Frears was at the forefront of the British cinematic revival of the mid-1980s, and the delightfully transgressive My Beautiful Laundrette is his greatest triumph of the period. Working from a richly layered script by Hanif Kureishi, who was soon to be an internationally renowned writer, Frears tells an uncommon love story that takes place between a young South London Pakistani man (Gordon Warnecke), who decides to open an upscale laundromat to make his family proud, and his childhood friend, a skinhead (Daniel Day-Lewis, in a breakthrough role) who volunteers to help make his dream a reality. This culture-clash comedy is also a subversive work of social realism that dares to address racism, homophobia, and sociopolitical marginalization in Margaret Thatcher's England.;
• Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis; Richard Graham; Winston Graham; Dudley Thomas; Derrick Branche; Garry Cooper; Gordon Warnecke; Roshan Seth; Saeed Jaffrey; Shirley Anne Field; Charu Bala Chokshi; Souad Faress; Rita Wolf; Persis Maravala; Nisha Kapur; Neil Cunningham; Walter Donohue; Gurdial Sira; Stephen Marcus; Dawn Archibald; Jonathan Moore; Gerard Horan; Ram John Holder; Bhasker Patel; Ayub Khan-Din; Dulice Liecier; Badi Uzzaman; Chris Pitt; Kerryann White; Colin Campbell; Sheila Chitnis; Persis Khambatta; Stephen Frears; Hanif Kureishi
• Director: Stephen Frears
• Runtime: 1:38
• Company: Mainline Pictures, Channel Four Television Company, Ltd., Working Title Films, SAF Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie