My Beautiful Laundrette
“A sharp, sophisticated, funny, sexy, compassionate picture.”
6.7(302)19851h 38m
ComedyDramaRomance
A young Pakistani Briton manages a rundown laundrette with his lover while dealing with tension in his family, the local Pakistani community, and a persistent mob of skinheads.
Director
Stephen Frears
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$0.9M
Revenue
$2.5M
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Geronimo1967
8mo ago
7.0
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 t...
