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My Beautiful Laundrette: The Criterion Collection

Criterion   (1985) / Region A
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My Beautiful Laundrette: The Criterion Collection

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My Beautiful Laundrette: The Criterion Collection

Stephen Frears 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.

Details

  • Length
  • Rating R
  • Released:
  • Added Jun 16 2015
  • Production Year 1985
  • Empire SKU 1744919
  • UPC Code 715515151719
  • Studio  Criterion
  • Packaging Custom
  • Number of Discs 1
  • Disc SS-DL
  • Subtitles English

Features

New conversation between director Stephen Frears and producer Colin MacCabe
New interviews with writer Hanif Kureishi, producers Tim Bevan and Sarah Radclyffe, and Stapleton
Trailer
Plus: An essay by critic Graham Fuller

Audio/Video

  • Audio
    English Dolby Digital Mono
  • Video
    Widescreen 1.66:1 Color

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