| Title: | Sammy and Rosie Get Laid | |
| Director 1: | Stephen Frears | |
| Country: | UK | |
| Year: | 1987 | |
| length: | 101 mins | |
| Colour/b-w: | colour | |
| Genre: | feature film | |
| Screenwriter: | Hanif Kureishi | |
| Cinematographer: | Oliver Stapleton | |
| Editor: | Mick Audsley | |
| Producer: | Tim Bevan, Sarah Radclyffe | |
| Production company: | Channel Four Films/Working Title Films | |
| Cast: | Shashi Kapoor, Frances Barber, Claire Bloom | |
| Location: | TABB | |
| TABB No.: | 70 | |
| Synopsis: | Sammy and Rosie are a well-to-do couple who live in an area of London which seems to be at the edge of a war zone. The riots, disintegration and chaos which loom outside their house seem to step by step break in on their comfortable lives. The mixed-race couple is confronted with the conservatism and traditionalism of Sammy's father, who comes to visit from Pakistan. In this 'new' but also depressed London, Sammy and Rosie get laid - by each other, by various friends, and, as the movie implies, by the system itself. | |
| Keyword 1: | Asian | |
| Keyword 2: | black | |
| Keyword 3: | white | |
| Keyword 4: | 1980s | |
| Keyword 5: | cultural identity | |
| Keyword 6: | history | |
| Keyword 7: | mixed-race relationship | |
| Keyword 8: | Pakistani | |
| Keyword 9: | London | |
| Keyword 10: | riot | |
| Keyword 11: | racism | |
| Keyword 12: | generation | |
| Keyword 13: | tradition | |
| Keyword 14: | Thatcher | |
| Keyword 15: | sexuality | |
| Text Reference 1: | The Cinema of Displacement: Towards a Politically Motivated Poetics | |
| Text Reference 2: | The Politics of Irony: The Frears-Kureishi Films | |
| Text Reference 3: | "My Beautiful Laundrette" und "Sammy and Rosie Get Laid": Filmische Reflexion von Identitätsprozessen | |
| Text Reference 4: | Sammy and Rosie Get Laid: The Script and the Diary | |
| Text Reference 5: | England Bloody England | |
| Text Reference 6: | In Praise of "Sammy and Rosie Get Laid" | |
| Text Reference 7: | Hybride Kulturen: Die postkoloniale Identitätsdebatte im 'Black British Film' | |
| Text Reference 8: | Bidding for the Mainstream? Black and Asian British Film since the 1990s | |
| Text Reference 9: | Contrast, Hybridity, and the Other: "Sammy and Rosie Get Laid" as Contemporary Postcolonial Critique | |
| Text Reference 10: | An Explosion of Difference: The Margins of Perception in "Sammy and Rosie Get Laid" | |
| Text Reference 11: | Stylish Nihilism: Race, Sex and Class at the Movies | |
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