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My Beautiful Laundrette
An ambitious Asian Briton and his white lover strive for success and hope, when they open up a glamorous laundromat. But, unfortunately, various social forces threaten to compromise their success.
1955, Hull, East Yorkshire, England, UK
October1961, Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, UK
4 November 1943, Chatham, Kent, England, UK
11 November 1962, Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK
25 February 1960, Calcutta, India
8 January 1929, Malerkotla, Punjab, British India
December 04, 2016
Would that all socially relevant cinematic documents were also such good movies!
May 13, 2013
This new British picture raises enough issues for a half-dozen more conventional movies. And though this approach makes for a structure that's a little shaky, the film somehow holds together.
October 07, 2015
... unfolds with a refreshing honesty and a sense of surprise to it; being handled more like something embedded within the characters rather than a plot point thrown in just to bring up an issue or an easy conflict point.
November 18, 2015
How many times in the history of the medium have we seen a single film rattle as many socio-cinematic paradigms-and done it with as much brio-as My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)?
May 13, 2013
Fast, bold, harsh and primitive like a prodigious student film with equal parts promise and threat.
May 13, 2013
This seminal 1980s movie launched a plethora of now distinguished careers, including those of director Stephen Frears and Daniel Day-Lewis.
May 13, 2013
This is a uniquely plausible portrait of life in England, yet its appeal isn't limited to social realism -- it also has a twist of buoyant fantasy and romance
June 18, 2008
As always, director Stephen Frears does a superb job of work when given a good script, and this is a very good script.
May 13, 2013
It's Daniel Day Lewis, taut, intelligent, erotic, who is an emerging star.
August 17, 2016
Besides being revelatory in its depiction of a gay relationship, its respectful, yet unfawning, look at immigrants trying to make it in a new country is straight out of the headlines.