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.
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.
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