Independent drama from director Stephen Frears, starring Daniel Day-Lewis. Omar (Gordon Warnecke), a homosexual Pakistani living in London with his...
Independent drama from director Stephen Frears, starring Daniel Day-Lewis. Omar (Gordon Warnecke), a homosexual Pakistani living in London with his alcoholic father, steals drug money and, with his lover Johnny (Day-Lewis), renovates a grungy laundrette.
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98 %45 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
74 %7,209 reviewsAudience score rating
"As always, director Stephen Frears does a superb job of work when given a good script, and this is a very good script."
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Variety
Variety"The strength of the film is its vision -- cutting, compassionate and sometimes hilarious -- of what it means to be Asian, and British, in Thatcher's Britain."
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Time Out
Time Out"Fast, bold, harsh and primitive like a prodigious student film with equal parts promise and threat."
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Time Magazine
Time Magazine"A fascinating, eccentric, very personal movie."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"It is with some relief that we realize it isn't "about" anything; it's simply some weeks spent with some characters in a way that tells us more about some aspects of modern Britain than we've seen before."
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Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert"It's Daniel Day Lewis, taut, intelligent, erotic, who is an emerging star."
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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times"At times puzzling due to the diverse panorama of subject matter, the film nevertheless corners touchy issues more than it flinches them."
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Empire Magazine
Empire MagazineMy Beautiful Laundrette | Details
- Runtime
- 97
- Genre
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Country of origin
- UK
