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	My Beautiful Laundrette - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		My Beautiful Laundrette is a 1985 film directed by Stephen Frears.
		My Beautiful Laundrette marked the first time Oliver Stapleton was in charge of the cinematography in a Stephen Frears' movie.
		My Beautiful Laundrette was nominated in 1987 for a single Academy Award - Best Original Screenplay, by Hanif Kureishi.
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	Literary Encyclopedia: My Beautiful Laundrette (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) was Kureishi's first major success, winning the former “fringe” playwright a popular audience as well as nominations for Best Screenplay in the Oscars and BAFTA Awards.
		At the outset of the film, the faux–naif Omar is taken up by his uncle Nasser and cousin Salim who represent an entrepreneurial spirit which is in keeping with the spirit of the decade but deeply antithetical to the old–fashioned socialism of Omar's disillusioned and now alcoholic immigrant father.
		While Laundrette is plotted round what is, structurally, a conventional love story, with obvious echoes of West Side Story, such elements subvert those conventions, challenging the homophobia implicit in New Right rhetoric about the importance of the traditional nuclear family and its narrow, sometimes overtly racist, conceptions of national belonging.
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		My Beautiful Laundrette is a 1985 film directed by Stephen Frears Stephen Frears quick summary:
		My Beautiful Laundrette was Frears' fifth feature film Film quick summary:
		My Beautiful Laundrette was nominated in 1987 for a single Academy Award - Best Original Screenplay Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay quick summary:
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	My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
		My Beautiful Laundrette, a fair and true product of the decade, crosses between these (and many other) camps in distilling the era.
		Somehow their relationship is convincing and quite unreal, held in place by individual ability; Warnecke juggles friends and enemies deftly, Day-Lewis evinces the attitude and accent of common, downtrodden man. Around them the multi-cultural cast ebbs and flows, mostly convincing and always interesting.
		My Beautiful Laundrette rewardingly looks over their shoulders; no beginning and no end, just a span of time.
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	ParisDailyPhoto: A beautiful Laundrette
		Michael and Eric- I'll be happy to pose the challenge to my students tomorrow.
		But - Eric, do you know the dimensions of those washers and dryers in Paris laundromats, because my recollection is that washers in France are minuscule compared to those in the U.S, which are rather gigantic.
		My laundry mats are not nearly so lovely or interesting, but the patrons-now that is another story!
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	My Beautiful Laundrette Script - transcript from the screenplay and/or Daniel Day-Lewis movie
		Finally, the My Beautiful Laundrette script is here for all you fans of the Stephen Frears movie starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Saeed Jaffrey, Gordon Warneck, yadda yadda.
		This script is a transcript that was painstakingly transcribed using the screenplay and/or viewings of My Beautiful Laundrette.
		My blue brother was also a famous journalist in Bombay.
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	DVD.net : My Beautiful Laundrette - DVD Review
		My Beautiful Laundrette is a film that addresses a variety of issues including inter-racial relationships, infidelity, arranged marriages, racial tension, and homosexuality.
		My Beautiful Laundrette is well written, well directed, with strong performances all round.
		My Beautiful Laundrette is presented in an aspect ratio of 1.66:1 and is 15:9 enhanced (you'll get fl bars on the edge of the picture).
	www.dvd.net.au /review.cgi?review_id=1395 (1004 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: My Beautiful Laundrette (xhtml)
		When people told me they'd seen "My Beautiful Laundrette" and it was a good movie, I had a tendency to believe them, for who would dare to make a bad movie with such an uncommercial title?
		"My Beautiful Laundrette" refuses to commit its plot to any particular agenda, and I found that interesting.
		A movie like this lives or dies with its performances, and the actors in "My Beautiful Laundrette" are a fascinating group of unknowns, with one exception: Shirley Anne Field, who plays Rachel, and whom you may recognize from "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" and other British films.
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	MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE (1985) Director: Stephen Frears Stars: Gordon Warnecke, Daniel Day Lewis, Saeed Jaffrey
		My Beautiful Laundrette also saw the star-birth of Daniel Day Lewis, who won a New York Film Critics Circle Award for his performances here and in A Room With A View.
		My Beautiful Laundrette is a film of great humour, deep regret, and an incisive view of Eighties London which never topples into polemic or left-wing sentiment.
		The characters of My Beautiful Laundrette are all in the process of migrating – countries or classes - or reflecting on migration that has gone partially right, and partially wrong.
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	Tower Records - My Beautiful Laundrette
		MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE is a highly acclaimed and beautifully rendered portrait of two boyhood friends struggling to survive in racially tense Thatcher-era Britain.
		MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE, directed by Stephen Frears, is a highly innovative and fantastical exploration of marginalized cultures in Thatcher-era London.
		Johnny looks upon the laundrette as a lifeline on which to salvage his self-respect, while Omar sees it as just the beginning step on the long road toriches.
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	Amazon.ca: My Beautiful Laundrette [IMPORT]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Writer Hanif Kureishi and director Stephen Frears pack My Beautiful Laundrette with so many characters, ideas, and well-observed moments that stars Gordon Warnecke and Daniel Day-Lewis barely get the chance to demonstrate their characters' dance of desire and economic power.
		A classic film in my book, My Beautiful Laundrette is the story of Omar, a young restless Asian man caring for his alcoholic father in Thatcherite London.
		My two other favorite characters were Omar's father and Tanya.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00008R9KF (1575 words)

	Movie Club: 'My Beautiful Laundrette' - Arts Extra - Newsweek - MSNBC.com
		"My Beautiful Laundrette" was a trailblazer: a new, vital, utterly fresh vision of contemporary Thatcherite London in all its messy contradictory multicultural confusion.
		The beauty of Frears's movie is the complex humanity all of its characters achieve: no one is wholly good or wholly bad but a fascinating mixture of opportunism, idealism and amorality.
		"My Beautiful Laundrette" treats the viewer as an adult, letting us wend our own way through this dizzying and sometimes scary new world, leaving all judgments and conclusions up for grabs.
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	Amazon.co.uk: My Beautiful Laundrette [1985]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In case you'd forgotten, My Beautiful Laundrette will remind you of those mid-80s days when Thatcherism ruled the earth (or so it seemed) and money was king.
		When the film first came out, it was the gay content that dominated the column inches, whereas now it seems a sensitive and multi-faceted summation of its decade, exploring social, ethnic and sexual issues and contradictions.
		My beautiful Laundrette was a great hit in her time, a low budged movie showing the down sides of the Thater period and first showed gay issues, especially in the Asian community.
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	channel4.com/film - My Beautiful Laundrette (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Each character is rounded and well-defined, imbued with depth and complexity, and the central gay relationship is (for its time) remarkably free of guilt and not used as an incendiary plot device.
		Omar (Warnecke) is the aspiring capitalist given an opportunity by his uncle (Jaffrey) to grab a share of Britain's wealth by "squeezing the tits of the system".
		This is an unacceptable role reversal for Johnny's former bullyboy friends, who lurk with malevolent presence, unable to understand his change of heart.
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=106284 (305 words)

	My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Omar is showing Johnny round the laundrette] I'm dead impressed by all this.
		I have seen this movie and would like to comment on it
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	Buy My Beautiful Laundrette on DVD at tlavideo.com
		My Beautiful Laundrette is a landmark film that was lauded by the gay press upon its release and could very easily be one of the most-loved gay films of all time.
		A young English-born Pakistani and his punk friend/lover (Daniel Day-Lewis) together brave the ugly spectre of racism and homophobia as they transform a dingy East End laundrette into a profitable and glitzy emporium.
		An early and definitive example of New Queer Cinema, for the two gay characters are open and matter-of-fact, loving and sexual and, most importantly, not troubling to themselves.
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	Barnes & Noble.com - My Beautiful Laundrette -- Stephen Frears - DVD - Wide Screen
		After successfully transforming his laundrette into a vision of resplendent pastel suds and providing a bright spot in his otherwise sqalid London neighborhood, Omar seems to have a bright future in Nasser's organization.
		The spectre of Johnny's past, however, combines with Omar's conflicted immigrant loyalties to threaten the sense of identity the young man has managed to stake out for himself.
		British-born, half-Pakistani playwright and novelist Hanif Kureishi won an Oscar nomination for his screenplay for My Beautiful Laundrette, which was originally filmed for BBC television.
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	screenonline: My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
		Omar, son of a Pakistani immigrant, embarks on a venture to renovate his uncle's laundrette with the help of his childhood friend, ex-National Front member Johnny, with whom he develops a gay relationship.
		An ardent intellectual socialist, Papa belongs to old school Pakistan because, like most first generation immigrants, he believes fervently in education combating racism and is vehemently against the greed and conservative economics of Thatcherism.
		Nasser, however, has largely abandoned his immigrant roots, toasting "Thatcher and your [Omar's] beautiful laundrette".
	www.screenonline.org.uk /film/id/443819 (385 words)

	Lists and Diagrams: My Beautiful Laundrette.
		Now that's a concept: a laundrette were you can have a meal and get your washing done.
		The only reason to go to the Beautiful Laundrette is because it has larger machines.
		The other reason to go to MBL is the music.
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	Amazon.com: My Beautiful Laundrette: DVD: Saeed Jaffrey,Roshan Seth,Daniel Day-Lewis,Gordon Warnecke,Derrick ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Plot Synopsis: My Beautiful Laundrette is set within the Asian community in London, during the Thatcher years, and displays those values, of money but 'anybody can make it.' Omar gains the running of his Uncle Nasser's laundrette.
		My Beautiful Laundrette, Stephen Frears's low-budget realization of Hanif Kureishi's subversively critical play, captures the contradictions of mid-'80s Thatcherism in a way that's as fresh today as when it was new.
		When the film was first released, it was the gay content that dominated the conversation, whereas now it seems a sensitive and multifaceted summation of its decade, exploring social, ethnic, and sexual issues and contradictions.
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	My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
		Set within the Asian community in London, My Beautiful Laundrette is an unusual love story concerned with identity and entrepreneurial spirit during the Thatcher years.
		However, complications soon ensue as the anger of Johnny's deserted gang begins to build and Omar is forced to face increasingly difficult family issues.
		Written by Hanif Kureishi and skilfully directed by Stephen Frears, My Beautiful Laundrette tackles the difficult issues of racism, sexuality, bigotry, violence and politics in early 80s Britain but still manages to be compassionate, humorous and hugely entertaining.
	www.michaeldvd.com.au /Discs/Disc.asp?ID=4127 (167 words)

	My Beautiful Laundrette @ EzyDVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		This DVD is formatted for playback on PAL enabled systems (Australian Standard).
		My Beautiful Laundrette is an unusual love story concerned with identity and entrepreneurial spirit during the Thatcher years.
		Written by Hanif Kureishi and skilfully directed by Stephen Frears, My Beautiful Laundrette tackles the difficult issues of racism, sexuality, bigotry, violence and politics in the early 80's Britain but still manages to be compassionate, humerous & hugely entertaining.
	www.ezydvd.com.au /item.zml/220081 (111 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: My Beautiful Laundrette: Screenplay (Faber Reel Classics S.): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Amazon.co.uk: My Beautiful Laundrette: Screenplay (Faber Reel Classics S.): Books
		My Beautiful Laundrette: Screenplay (Faber Reel Classics S.)
		I am the author and I want to comment on my book.
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	slant // magazine.com: Film Review - My Beautiful Laundrette
		hile Personal Best and Making Love have faded into obscurity as The Celluloid Closet footnotes, My Beautiful Laundrette has become a benchmark in the '80s new queer cinema.
		The film's approach to portraying homosexuality is as much grounded in raw, sensual realism as some of the film's other themes are in buoyant fantasy.
		My Beautiful Laundrette is still fresh and remains a model case for creating moving, liberating cinema from an oppressive environment.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=697 (256 words)

	My Beautiful Laundrette movie posters and memorabilia at MovieGoods (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		My Beautiful Laundrette movie posters and memorabilia at MovieGoods
		Great performances by a relatively unknown cast (for contrast, note Day Lewis' performance in "Room with a View," released in the same year.).
		MovieGoods: the web's largest selection of movie posters and memorabilia, including My Beautiful Laundrette posters.
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	Sundance Channel - MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE
		Exceptional performances highlight this pivotal British film of the '80s, notable for its unusual portrait of multicultural England in transition.
		R (AC, AL, N) My Beautiful Laundrette is not currently screening
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