My Beautiful Laundrette
A sharp, sophisticated, funny, sexy, compassionate picture.
Overview
A young Pakistani Briton manages a rundown laundrette with his lover while dealing with tension in his family, the local Pakistani community, and a persistent mob of skinheads.
- Budget
- $860,000
- Revenue
- $2,451,545
- Production
- Working Title Films, SAF Productions, Channel Four Films
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Cast
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
Stephen Marcus
Moose
Ram John Holder
Poet
Dawn Archibald
Gang Member #1
Jonathan Moore
Gang Member #2
Gerard Horan
Telephone Man
Bhasker Patel
Tariq
Badi Uzzaman
Dealer
Ayub Khan-Din
Student
Dulice Liecier
Girl in Disco
Colin Campbell
Madame Butterfly Man
Crew
- Director
- Stephen Frears
- Writers
- Hanif Kureishi
- Producers
- Tim Bevan,Sarah Radclyffe
- Cinematography
- Oliver Stapleton
- Composer
- Stanley Myers,Hans Zimmer
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CinemaSerf
July 16, 2025
This was always my favourite of the early slew of films commissioned by Channel Four. At the time it was trendy to make sure that every film was “edgy” and determined to make some sort of social point about the supposed iniquities of “Thatcherism”. This one is a bit more subtle about that, presenting an hybrid of a love story married with a critique on a racially charged environment in which the thuggish and the venal were almost equally complicit. We meet the handsome young “Omar” (Gordon Warne…