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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 9780792855798
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792855795
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 03, 2003
Running Time: 98 minutes
Sales Rank: 17765
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 1986-04
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With its "extraordinary cast" (Los Angeles Times) including Oscar® winner* Daniel Day Lewis and "riveting visual style" (Newsweek) this "warm compassionate and feisty" film (The Hollywood Reporter) about a young Pakistani man coming of age in London is "a fascinating eccentric [and] very personal movie" (The New York Times)!Living on the dole with his alcoholic father in a shabby South London flat Omar is a bright-eyed Pakistani teenager who wants to make something of himself. And as his papa drowns deeper in vodka and self-pity Omar turns to his unscrupulous wheeling-and-dealing Uncle Nasser to show him the key to success. But when Nasser hires Omar as manager of a seedy dilapidated laundromat Omar is forced to choose between running a squeaky-clean establishment or conducting some very dirty business!*1989: Actor My Left FootSystem Requirements:Running Time: 98 Min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: R UPC: 027616869326 Manufacturer No: 1002734
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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. Wheeler-dealer Nasser (Saeed Jaffrey) sums it up when he says, "In this damn country, which we hate and love, you can get anything you want." He sets up his nephew Omar (Gordon Warnecke) with a rundown laundrette and the instruction to make it a success, which Omar temporarily does, with the help of his childhood friend Johnny (Daniel Day-Lewis). 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. Bringing together two such different characters as Omar--Asian, ambitious, for whom success is defined by wealth--and former childhood friend Johnny--white trash, ex-National Front--was inspired. Watching their friendship develop into love, and the ensuing bitterness and misunderstanding that they suffer from friends and family, is very poignant. All the lead roles are well taken, the contradictory character of Nasser in particular. By turns, funny, touching and anger-inducing, My Beautiful Laundrette wears its age lightly and its era proudly. --Harriet Smith
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The film covers a short period of time in the life of Omar, a young Pakistani living in London in the 80's. His father is a brilliant, well educated socialist who was famous back home but is a nobody there, so he has taken to his bed with a bottle of vodka. His hope is in Omar, and he expects him to go to college to understand the evils of society. Meanwhile, though they need cash and he calls on his successful brother, Nassar to give Omar a summer job in one of his many businesses.
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I suppose people either love this film or hate it....
The basic plot was a guy trying to do something in his life in a somewhat confusing world not to his favor. Omar, a son of Pakistani immigrant, who up until the start of the movie, didn't have any direction in life. We don't know his history, but it'll unfold in the movie. We learned he is gay, and was a troublemaker when he was younger.
Anyways, I suppose some people don't like how this movie rambles. I for one, hate ... Read More
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The acting is great and Daniel Day was great; Omar is awesome. The movie is very sensual. The story is well told and interesting.
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Originally made for the BBC, and scripted by half-Pakistani writer Hanif Kureishi, Frears's endearing, intelligent "Laundrette" is a dramatic and often humorous study of bigotry, sexuality, and social mobility in Thatcher-era Britain. Warnecke and Day-Lewis are convincing as distinct social types in eighties London--the striving immigrant under pressure to acculturate on one hand and marry a family acquaintance on the other; and the skinhead who turns on his mates to pursue a friendship with a loathsome ... Read More
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the sound was difficult especialy with the english axcent. good story.skiped around a bit but was well acted i thought. glad i saw it
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