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Title:

My beautiful laundrette / MGM ; Channel 4 Films ; SAF Productions ; Working Title Films ; produced by Tim Bevan and Sarah Radclyffe ; written by Hanif Kureishi ; directed by Stephen Frears.

Edition:

Director-approved DVD special edition.

Publisher:

The Criterion Collection,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

1 videodisc (98 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Pakistanis--London--London--Drama.
Youth--London--London--Drama.
Self-service laundries--London--London--Drama.
Gay men--London--London--Drama.
Sexual minorities--London--London--Drama.
London (England)--Drama.
Comedy films.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Authors:

Frears, Stephen, interviewee (expression) interviewee (expression)
Kureishi, Hanif, interviewee (expression) interviewee (expression)
Radclyffe, Sarah, 1950- interviewee (expression) interviewee (expression)
Bevan, Tim, interviewee (expression) interviewee (expression)
Day-Lewis, Daniel, actor.
Jaffrey, Saeed, 1929- actor.
Seth, Roshan, 1942- actor.
Field, Shirley-Anne, 1938- actor.
Branche, Derrick, 1947- actor.
Warnecke, Gordon, actor.
Stapleton, Oliver, interviewee (expression) interviewee (expression)
Audsley, Mick, film editor.
Tonalis, Ludus, composer (expression)
MacCabe, Colin, interviewee (expression)
Fuller, Graham, 1956- writer of supplementary textual content.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1992- ), production company.
Channel Four Films (Firm), production company.
SAF Productions, production company.
Working Title Films, production company.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.

Notes:

Roshan Seth, Daniel Day-Lewis, Saeed Jaffrey, Gordon Warnecke, Derrick Branche, Shirley Anne Field. Originally released as a motion picture in 1985. Widescreen (1.66:1) Special features: New conversation between director Stephen Frears and producer Colin MacCabe; New interviews with writer Hanif Kureishi, producers Tim Bevan and Sarah Radclyffe, and director of photography Oliver Stapleton; trailer. Plus: an essay on container insert "Postcolonialism in the wash" by film scholar Graham Fuller.

Summary:

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), 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.

Series:

Criterion Collection ; 767

ISBN:

9781681430249
168143024X

OCLC:

(OCoLC)911045761

UPC:

715515151818

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

CYPF706 -- Musser Public Library (Muscatine)