| Title: | My Beautiful Laundrette | |
| Director 1: | Stephen Frears | |
| Country: | UK | |
| Year: | 1986 | |
| length: | 93 mins | |
| Colour/b-w: | colour | |
| Genre: | feature film | |
| Screenwriter: | Hanif Kureishi | |
| Cinematographer: | Oliver Stapleton | |
| Editor: | Mick Audsley | |
| Producer: | Sarah Radclyffe, Tim Bevan | |
| Production company: | Channel Four Television | |
| Cast: | Daniel Day-Lewis, Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth | |
| Location: | TABB | |
| TABB No.: | 63 | |
| Synopsis: | "My Beautiful Laundrette" is set in the Asian community in London during the Thatcher years. Omar, a young Asian, is asked to manage the run-down laundrette of his Uncle Nasser. Omar's white friend, Johnny, helps him to restore the laundrette to a successful business. A relationship between Omar and Johnny develops. As a consequence, familial and racial tensions grow, and the two lovers have to face racism, homophobia and prejudice. | |
| Keyword 1: | London | |
| Keyword 2: | mixed-race relationship | |
| Keyword 3: | sexuality | |
| Keyword 4: | homosexuality | |
| Keyword 5: | racial conflict | |
| Keyword 6: | Pakistani | |
| Keyword 7: | dysfunctional family | |
| Keyword 8: | economy | |
| Keyword 9: | violence | |
| Keyword 10: | family | |
| Keyword 11: | Thatcher | |
| Keyword 12: | Asian | |
| Keyword 13: | white | |
| Keyword 14: | 1980s | |
| Keyword 15: | first generation | |
| Keyword 16: | second generation | |
| Keyword 17: | racism | |
| Text Reference 1: | Black Artists, White Institutions | |
| 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: | My Beautiful Laundrette and The Rainbow Sign | |
| Text Reference 5: | England Bloody England | |
| Text Reference 6: | Dirty Linen | |
| Text Reference 7: | Kureishi Like a Fox | |
| Text Reference 8: | Black Film, British Cinema (ICA Documents 7) | |
| Text Reference 9: | Realism and the New Language | |
| Text Reference 10: | Hanif Kueishi and 'The Brown Man's Burden' | |
| Text Reference 11: | Bidding for the Mainstream? Black and Asian British Film since the 1990s | |
| Text Reference 12: | A Cinema Without Walls: Movies and Cultures after Vietnam | |
| Text Reference 13: | Through a Lens Darkly | |
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