My Beautiful Laundrette/Dvd, Criterion Collection, DVD
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$5 - $10, All, Badi Uzzaman, Chris Pitt, Colin Campbell, Comedy, Criterion Collection, Criterion Collection (Direct), Daniel Day-Lewis, Dawn Archibald, Drama, Dudley Thomas, Gordon Warnecke, Gurdial Sira, Jonathan Moore, Movies, Movies & TV › Movies, Over $10, Ram John Holder, Saeed Jaffrey, Shirley Field, Stephen Frears, Stephen Marcus, Under $5Stephen Frears (The Hit) 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 writer Hanif Kureishi (Intimacy), soon to be internationally renowned, 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, which dares to address racism, homophobia, and sociopolitical marginalization in Margaret Thatcher's England.
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