"My Beautiful Laundrette" takes place in the Asian community of London during the years that MargaretThatcher was Prime Minister. Omar takes over operating his Uncle Nasser's laundrette. He is helped by his friend Johnny who is an outsider, white but not entirely accepted by either the white or Asian Londoners.

GENRE: Comedydrama, Romance
MPAA RATING: R
RUN TIME: 1h 37m
RELEASE DATE: March 07, 1986
STARRING: Gordon Gordon, Daniel Day-Lewis, Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth, Derrick Branche
DIRECTOR(S): Stephen Frears
PRODUCER(S): Sarah Radclyffe, Tim Bevan
WRITER(S): Hanif Kureishi
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