My Beautiful Laundrette

A young Pakistani Briton manages a rundown laundrette with his lover while dealing with tension in his family, the local Pakistani community, and a persistent mob of skinheads.

Cast

Gordon Warnecke

as Omar Ali

Daniel Day-Lewis

as Johnny Burfoot

Roshan Seth

as Hussein "Papa" Ali

Saeed Jaffrey

as Nasser Ali

Derrick Branche

as Salim N. Ali

Rita Wolf

as Tania N. Ali

Souad Faress

as Cherry N. Ali

Shirley Anne Field

as Rachel

Richard Graham

as Genghis

Garry Cooper

as Squatter

Reviews

CinemaSerf

This was always my favourite of the early slew of films commissioned by Channel Four. At the time it was trendy to make sure that every film was “edgy” and determined to make some sort of social point about the supposed iniquities of “Thatcherism”. This one is a bit more subtle about that, presentin...

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