My beautiful laundrette /
Set in the Pakistani community in south London, the film focuses on two youths, friends from schooldays. Johnny (Daniel Day Lewis) is a working-class white whose punkish friends are members of the National Front, a fascist group of thugs. Omar (Gordon Warnecke), a Pakistani lives with his left-lea...
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| Format: | Video VHS |
| Language: | English |
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Channel Four,
[1985]
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| Summary: | Set in the Pakistani community in south London, the film focuses on two youths, friends from schooldays. Johnny (Daniel Day Lewis) is a working-class white whose punkish friends are members of the National Front, a fascist group of thugs. Omar (Gordon Warnecke), a Pakistani lives with his left-leaning father (Roshan Seth), who spends most of his time in bed drinking vodka. Omar is given a menial job by his wealthy, unscrupulous uncle, and eventually inherits a rundown laundrette. Omar and Johnny quickly convert it into "a Ritz among Laundrettes," a guady, neon-lit palace called "Powders" complete with aquarium, video games, potted plants and piped classical muzak. While Johnny looks upon the laundrette as a life line on which to salvage his self-respect, Omar sees it as just the beginning step on the road to riches. |
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| Item Description: | VHS format. Videocassette release of the 1985 motion picture. |
| Physical Description: | 1 videocassette (PAL) (93 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in. |
| Production Credits: | Producers, Sarah Radclyffe and Tim Bevan ; script, Hanif Kureishi ; film editor, Mick Audsley ; music, Ludus Tonalis ; photography, Oliver Stapleton. |