My Beautiful Laundrette
- 1985 film
Comic drama about a young British-Pakistani attempting to turn around a laundrette business. Stars Gordon Warnecke, Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth, Daniel Day Lewis, Derrick Branche and more.
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Key details
- Genre
- Film
- Released
- 1985
- Stars
- Gordon Warnecke, Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth, Daniel Day Lewis, Derrick Branche, Shirley Anne Field, Richard Graham, Winston Graham and more
- Writer
- Hanif Kureishi
- Director
- Stephen Frears
- Producers
- Sarah Radclyffe and Tim Bevan
- Companies
Second generation Brit Omar takes over the running of his wheeler-dealer uncle's decrepit London laundrette with the intention of making his way in the world by turning it into a glittering palace of commercial success.
A chance encounter brings him back into contact with a childhood friend, Johnny, now part of a violent, delinquent street gang and former member of the National Front. As unlikely as it seems and much to the disgust of Johnny's current group of friends, the two revive their friendship and begin a thorough overhaul of the business.
Soon the pair have become lovers as well as working partners. However, complications soon ensue as the anger of Johnny's deserted gang begins to build and Omar is forced to face a variety of increasingly difficult family issues, not least his constantly drunken father.
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Additional details
- UK certificate
- 15
- Duration
- 97 minutes
- UK release
- Saturday 16th November 1985
- Production
- Location
- Camera set-up
- Single camera
- Picture
- Colour
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Broadcast details
- Most recent repeats
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- Monday 3rd February 2025 at 1:30am on Film4
- Thursday 15th February 2024 at 1:10am on Film4
- Thursday 23rd June 2022 at 11:40pm on Film4