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