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My Beautiful Laundrette
Directed by
Stephen Frears
R
1986
1h 38m
Drama
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Comedy
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6.8
95%
74%
6.7
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An ambitious Pakistani Briton and his white boyfriend strive for success and hope when they open a glamorous laundromat.
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Cast of My Beautiful Laundrette
Gordon Warnecke
Omar Ali
Daniel Day-Lewis
Johnny Burfoot
Roshan Seth
Hussein "Papa" Ali
Saeed Jaffrey
Nasser Ali
Derrick Branche
Salim N. Ali
Rita Wolf
Tania N. Ali
Souad Faress
Cherry N. Ali
Shirley Anne Field
Rachel
Richard Graham
Genghis
Garry Cooper
Squatter
Charu Bala Chokshi
Bilquis
Persis Maravala
Nasser's Elder Daughter
Nisha Kapur
Nasir's Younger Daughter
Walter Donohue
Dick O'Donnell
Neil Cunningham
Englishman
Gurdial Sira
Zaki
Stephen Marcus
Moose
Ram John Holder
Poet
Dawn Archibald
Gang Member #1
Jonathan Moore
Gang Member #2
My Beautiful Laundrette Ratings & Reviews
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
It's a little like mixing the white and the dark loads, but somehow it all comes out in the wash and love prevails.
AV Club
Mike D'Angelo
No matter how clumsy the movie gets, it's always enjoyable just to spend time with these proud hustlers, who stubbornly refuse to lie down and be marginalized.
Slant Magazine
Chuck Bowen
[This] isn't a gay issues film, and it isn't intended as a soapbox lecture about British nationalism either. It isn't even a simple condemnation of Thatcherism. The film is about all of these things and none of these things simultaneously.
USA Today
Mike Clark
The most original '86 movie to date...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Harper Barnes
The sexuality and violence may be a little hard to take for some, but none of it is gratuitous. And all of it adds to a fine film that is complex without ever bogging down in its complexities, without ever being preachy.
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
A bracing, original drama that captured the class divisions of Margaret Thatcher's England and offered a memorable showcase for then-unknown Daniel Day Lewis.
Newsday
Mike McGrady
While the conflict between the established order and the new arrivals can be, and is, expressed through violence, it can also find expression in sexual terms as well. Both forms of expression are part of the film.
New York Daily News
Kathleen Carroll
This cynical, wryly funny tale of capitalist greed tries to tackle too many social issues at once. But, even as it garbled worst, it has an invigorating honesty and a cheerful impudence that is difficult to resist.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Jeff Strickler
Lewis turns in a powerful performance as someone trapped between love and hate. Warnecke, who's making his acting debut, imparts a plausibly naive enthusiasm to Omar.
Houston Chronicle
Michael Spies
Thoroughly original, a little bit cranky, My Beautiful Laundrette keeps its powders dry and will be a treat for audiences who don't require that everything come out in the wash.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
FWST Staff
Hanif Kureishi's screenplay mingles political smarts, humor and grim seriousness to solid effect.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Desmond Ryan
Frears did not make the easy film: Instead, he took Hanif Kureishi's ingeniously structured script and turned it into a vision of Margaret Thatcher's England that is scathing, unsparing and hilarious.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Cater
Remains a movie that's less than the sum of its promising parts. Not enough comes out in this wash, and that's too bad because certainly all the ingredients are there.
Arizona Republic
Marsha McCreadie
It shows that no matter how particular or localized a story line may be, if it's handled with charm and perspicacity it can fan out to capture intelligent viewers.
Boston Phoenix
Owen Gleiberman
My Beautiful Laundrette is about the slightly crazy mixture of optimism, fear, and family loyalty that binds a proud subculture, and also about how steely defiance can give way to the softer emotions of assimilation.
New York Magazine/Vulture
David Denby
Apart from the masterly Roshan Seth and Saeed Jaffrey, I particularly enjoyed Shirley Anne Field as Nasser's grateful mistress and also, as Johnny, Daniel Day Lewis.
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
There's nothing mournful about My Beautiful Laundrette. It's too headlong for elegy, too matter-o-fact for italicizing, too busy living in the present, too high on the fact that it has achieved survival -- and then some.
The New Yorker
Pauline Kael
It's an enormous pleasure to see a movie that's really about something, and that doesn't lay on any syrupy coating to make the subject go down easily.
Detroit Free Press
Catharine Rambeau
It is co-stars Lewis and Warnecke who give Laundrette the touch of romantic eroticism it needs to set it waltzing. This is Warnecke's film debut, and a graceful one it is.
Washington Post
Paul Attanasio
My Beautiful Laundrette is quirky and fresh and ambitious and pretty much everything a movie should be, except good.
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