Original title: My Beautiful Laundrette
Year: 1985
Country: UK
Region code: B
Content: Blu-Ray
EAN: 5061088922757
Image: 1.66:1 (1080p)
HDR: -
Audio: English - Uncompressed Mono
Subtitles: English SDH
Age rating: 15
Genre: Drama
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Saeed Jaffrey
Director: Stephen Frears
Synopsis:
Stephen Frears was at the forefront of the British cinematic revival of the mid-1980s, and the delightfully transgressive My Beautiful Laundrette is his greatest triumph of the period. Working from a richly layered script by Hanif Kureishi, who was soon to be an internationally renowned writer, Frears tells an uncommon love story that takes place between a young South London Pakistani man (Gordon Warnecke), who decides to open an upscale laundromat to make his family proud, and his childhood friend, a skinhead (Daniel Day-Lewis, in a breakthrough role) who volunteers to help make his dream a reality. This culture-clash comedy is also a subversive work of social realism that dares to address racism, homophobia, and sociopolitical marginalization in Margaret Thatcher’s England.
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