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My Beautiful Laundrette
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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.
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.
Actors:
Neil Cunningham,
Stephen Marcus,
Walter Donohue,
Ram John Holder,
Nisha Kapur,
Charu Bala Chokshi,
Roshan Seth
Neil Cunningham
4 November 1943, Chatham, Kent, England, UK
Stephen Marcus
18 June 1962, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, UK
Walter Donohue
Ram John Holder
1934, British Guiana
Nisha Kapur
Charu Bala Chokshi
Roshan Seth
2 April 1942, Patna, Bihar Province, British India
Country:
United Kingdom
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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
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
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.
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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.
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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.
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
This seminal 1980s movie launched a plethora of now distinguished careers, including those of director Stephen Frears and Daniel Day-Lewis.
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Fast, bold, harsh and primitive like a prodigious student film with equal parts promise and threat.
December 04, 2016
Would that all socially relevant cinematic documents were also such good movies!