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Overview

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Director:
Stephen Frears
Writer:
Hanif Kureishi (written by)
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Release Date:
April 1986 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Drama | Romance more
Plot:
An ambitious Asian Briton and his white lover strive for success and hope, when they open up a glamorous laundromat. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 5 wins & 3 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(11 articles)
Interview: 'Cheri' Director Stephen Frears
 (From Cinematical. 26 June 2009, 7:02 PM, PDT)

Dueling with Stephen Frears
 (From IFC. 26 June 2009, 7:56 AM, PDT)

User Comments:
Politics, Sex, and Punk Rock more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Saeed Jaffrey ... Nasser Hussein
Roshan Seth ... Ali Hussein

Daniel Day-Lewis ... Johnny (as Daniel Day Lewis)
Gordon Warnecke ... Omar Hussein
Derrick Branche ... Salim N. Hussein
Rita Wolf ... Tania N. Hussein
Souad Faress ... Cherry N. Hussein
Richard Graham ... Genghis
Shirley Anne Field ... Rachel
Winston Graham ... Jamaican One
Charu Bala Chokshi ... Bilquis (as Charu Bala Choksi)
Dudley Thomas ... Jamaican Two

Garry Cooper ... Squatter
Neil Cunningham ... Englishman
Persis Maravala ... Nasser's Elder Daughter
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Additional Details

Runtime:
97 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English | Urdu
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.66 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono

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Trivia:
My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) and A Room with a View (1985) both opened in New York on the same day, March 7, 1986. Both movies featured Daniel Day-Lewis in prominent and very different roles: in A Room with a View, he played a repressed, snobbish Edwardian upperclassman, while in Laundrette, he played a lower-class gay ex-skinhead in love with an ambitious Pakistani businessman in Thatcher's London. When American critics saw Day-Lewis, who was then virtually unknown in the US, in two such different roles on the same day, many (including Roger Ebert of The Chicago Sun-Times and Vincent Canby of The New York Times) raved about the talent it must have taken him to play such vastly different characters. more
Quotes:
Salim: I want to talk to Omar about business.
Johnny: I dunno where he is.
Salim: Is it worth waiting?
Johnny: In my experience it's always worth waiting for Omar.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Ha-Buah (2006) more

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2 out of 2 people found the following comment useful:-
Politics, Sex, and Punk Rock, 6 June 2002
Author: MartinInane (sfantasyman4u@excite.com) from Berkeley, CA

Want to see a side of London you won't get from any other director? Then watch My Beautiful Launderette... The film opens with a scene in which squatters are forcibly evicted from a derelict building. Londoner viewers will recognize this as a sad yet common event... Immediately, we are attuned to the political bent of the movie. Fortunately for that intent, the dialogue in the film is intelligently written (note: this will not appeal to the lowest common denominator -- it scores low on commercial appeal). Unfortunately, the often "stiff" delivery of that dialogue is a significant impediment. That said, Daniel Day Lewis lends a powerful presence to his role as the punk squatter, Johnny.

The climax of the film aptly integrates the various tensions in the film: political, sexual, and social. We're surprised with a love scene between Johnny and Omar which is well-paced, erotic, and genuine.



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