| My Beautiful Laundrette | |
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| Directed by | Stephen Frears |
| Written by | Hanif Kureishi |
| Produced by | Sarah Radclyffe |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Oliver Stapleton |
| Edited by | Mick Audsley |
| Music by | Stanley Myers Hans Zimmer (as Ludus Tonalis) |
Production companies | |
| Distributed by | Mainline Pictures[1] |
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Running time | 97 minutes[2] |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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| Budget | £650,000[3] |
| Box office | $3 million[4] |
My Beautiful Laundrette is a 1985 British romantic comedy-drama film directed by Stephen Frears from a screenplay by Hanif Kureishi. The film was one of the first films released by Working Title Films. The film is set in London during the Thatcher years, and reflects the often fraught relationships between members of the Pakistani and English communities at that time, against the backdrop of social changes across the country. The story focuses on Omar (Gordon Warnecke), a British man of Pakistani origin, and his reunion and eventual romance with his childhood friend Johnny (Daniel Day-Lewis), now a street punk. The two become the caretakers and business managers of a launderette originally owned by Omar's uncle Nasser.
The British Film Institute ranked My Beautiful Laundrette as the 50th greatest British film of the 20th century.[5] The film was adapted into a stage play in 2002 and 2019.
- ^ Park, James (20 November 1985). "London Fest Pulling Full Houses; West End Venues Boost Business". Variety. p. 5.
- ^ "My Beautiful Laundrette (15)". British Board of Film Classification. 18 September 1985. Retrieved 10 June 2012.
- ^ "Back to the Future: The Fall and Rise of the British Film Industry in the 1980s – An Information Briefing" (PDF). British Film Institute. 2005. p. 26.
- ^ "15 years of production". Variety. 14 December 1998. p. 102.
- ^ British Film Institute – Top 100 British Films (1999). Retrieved 27 August 2016