"My Beautiful Laundrette" takes place in the Asian community of London during the years that MargaretThatcher was Prime Minister. Omar takes over operating his Uncle Nasser's laundrette. He is helped by his friend Johnny who is an outsider, white but not entirely accepted by either the white or Asian Londoners.
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- My Beautiful Laundrette
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- Cast
- Daniel Day-Lewis, Gordon Warnecke, Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth, Shirley Field, Rita Wolf, Souad Faress, Derrick Branche, Richard Graham, Winston Graham
- Director
- Stephen Frears
- Producer
- Sarah Radclyffe, Tim Bevan
- Writer
- Hanif Kureishi
- Duration
- 01:37:00
- Release
- Saturday November 16 1985
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Distributor
- Mainline Pictures
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