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Director:
Stephen Frears
Writer:
Hanif Kureishi (written by)
Contact:
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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:
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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

Also Known As:
Én szép kis mosodám (Hungary) [hu]
A Minha Bela Lavandaria (Portugal) [pt]
Benim güzel çamasirhanem (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]
Mein wunderbarer Waschsalon (West Germany) [de]
Mi hermosa lavandería (Spain) [es]
Minha Adorável Lavanderia (Brazil) [pt]
Moja piekna pralnia (Poland) [pl]
My Beautiful Laundrette (France) [fr]
Oraio mou, plyntirio (Greece) [el]
Poikien pesula (Finland) [fi]
Rakas pesulani (Finland) (TV title) [fi]
Ropa limpia, negocios sucios (Argentina) [es]
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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:
Nasser: [Nasser bursts into the room where Johnny and Omar made love just moments before] What the hell are you doing? Sunbathing?
Omar: Asleep, Uncle. We were shagged out.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in Schau mir in die Augen, Kleiner (2007) more

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7 out of 10 people found the following comment useful.
multicultural and multisexual perspectives, 19 August 2003
Author: didi-5 from United Kingdom

Stephen Frears' film of Hanif Kureshi's script about the Pakistani and the NF punk who grew up as friends, and find themselves attracted to each other again. Gordon Warneke and Daniel Day-Lewis play the lovers in this intelligent movie which has a cheap British tinge but has some superb moments (Saeed Jaffrey as Warneke's uncle, ‘a professional businessman, not a professional Pakistani') within it.

Perhaps the longest-lasting image is the two boys in the back room of the launderette, splashing each other with water, and putting aside the political differences between them. Whether it truly makes its points about race and sexuality I'm not sure.

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