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Great film Shows love can conquer all.
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Very good. Much better standard of film from then, than nowadays (2020s).
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Great 80s nostalgia.
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Great film worth watching
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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. Stephen Frears' low-budget realisation of Hanif Kureishi's subversively critical play captures the contradictions of that time in a way that's as fresh today as when it was new. Omar's wheeler-dealer uncle, 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 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 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. 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, this is a movie that wears its age lightly and its era proudly.Read full review
Excellent film about racial tension in 1980s London. No definite good or bad characters -- almost everyone is shown to be flawed in some way. Daniel Day Lewis is brilliant. It can't be easy to bring complexity to a National Front punk, but he manages to. Much better than all that heritage rubbish.
A great film of its era on a topic which we seem to gloss over now as it is so common and it shows how far peoples attitudes have altered
Good dvd
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