My Beautiful Laundrette
93 minutes,
UK (1985), 15
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(4.6 / 49 votes)
(4.6 / 49 votes)
Stephen Frears' witty, intelligent look at multi-ethnic life in Thatcher's Britain. A great piece of 1980s cinema, which launched the career of Daniel Day-Lewis
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My Beautiful Laundrette: This tale of a young Asian Londoner determined to make a success out of a run-down laundrette received an Oscar nomination for writer Hanif Kureishi - and deservedly so. Each character is rounded and well-defined, imbued with depth and complexity, and the central gay relationship is (for its time) remarkably free of guilt and not used as an incendiary plot device...
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