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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), who volunteers to help make his dream a reality. This culture-clash comed...

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Uniform Title:My beautiful laundrette (Motion picture)
Other Authors: Frears, Stephen (interviewee (expression)), Kureishi, Hanif (Screenwriter, interviewee (expression)), Radclyffe, Sarah, 1950- (interviewee (expression)), Bevan, Tim (interviewee (expression)), Jaffrey, Saeed, 1929-2015 (Actor), Day-Lewis, Daniel (Actor), Seth, Roshan, 1942- (Actor), Field, Shirley-Anne, 1938- (Actor), Branche, Derrick, 1947- (Actor), Warnecke, Gordon (Actor), Tonalis, Ludus (composer (expression)), Stapleton, Oliver (director of photography,, interviewee (expression)), MacCabe, Colin (interviewee (expression))
Format: Video Blu-ray Disc
Language:English
Language Notes:In English with opti0nal English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).
Published: [New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2015]
Edition:Director-approved Blu-ray special edition.
Series:Criterion collection ; 767.
Subjects:
Pakistanis > England > London > Drama.
Youth > England > London > Drama.
Self-service laundries > England > London > Drama.
Gay men > England > London > Drama.
Sexual minorities > England > London > Drama.
London (England) > Drama.
Comedy films.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Summary: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), who volunteers to help make his dream a reality. This culture-clash comedy is also a subversive work of social realism, which dares to address racism, homophobia, and sociopolitical marginalization in Margaret Thatcher's England.
Item Description:Originally produced as a motion picture in 1985.
Special features: New conversation between director Stephen Frears and producer Colin MacCabe; New interviews with writer Hanif Kureishi, producers Tim Bevan and Sarah Radclyffe, and director of photography Oliver Stapleton; trailer. Plus: an essay on container insert "Postcolonialism in the wash" by film scholar Graham Fuller.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (98 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert.
Playing Time:01:38:00
Format:Blu-ray; region A; widescreen (1.66:1) presentation; LPCM 1.0 monaural.
Audience:MPAA rating: R.
Production Credits:Director of photography, Oliver Stapleton ; editor, Mick Audsley ; music, Ludus Tonalis.
ISBN:1681430231
9781681430232