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Title	My Beautiful Laundrette
Year	1985
Time	90 mins
Genre	Comedy; Drama; Romance
Director	Stephen Frears
Edition
Format	DVD
Actor	Daniel Day-Lewis as Johnny; Shirley Anne Field as Rachel; Saeed Jaffrey as Nasser; Richard Graham as Genghis; Roshan Seth as Papa; Charu Bala Chokshi as Bilquis; Derrick Branche as Salim; Souad Faress as Cherry; Winston Graham as Jamaican One; Gordon Warnecke as Omar; Rita Wolf as Tania; Garry Cooper as Squatter; Stephen Marcus as Moose; Dudley Thomas as Jamaican Two; Persis Maravala as Nasser's Elder Daughter
Rating	R (Restricted)
Cinematography	Oliver Stapleton
Language	English
Plot	MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE is a highly acclaimed and beautifully rendered portrait of two boyhood friends struggling to survive in racially tense Thatcher-era Britain. Omar, a homosexual Pakistani boy living in London with his alcoholic father, lifts a chunk of drug money from another Pakistani and, with his school chum Johnny, decides to renovate a grungy laundrette.
Producer	Tim Bevan; Sarah Radclyffe
Writer	Hanif Kureishi
Subtitles	English; French; Spanish; English (Closed Captioned)