Skip to Content
Poster for My Beautiful Laundrette
Watch trailer for My Beautiful Laundrette Watch trailer

My Beautiful Laundrette

Opens on June 6

Director: Stephen Frears Run Time: 98 min. Release Year: 1985

Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Derrick Branche, Gordon Warnecke, Roshan Seth, Saeed Jaffrey

My Beautiful Laundrette is a dramedy that chronicles the journey of Omar, a young Anglo-Pakistani man, as he takes charge of his uncle’s failing laundromat business and rekindles a romance with a man from his past.

“My Beautiful Laundrette was still revolutionary in the way it depicted its gay relationship.  I feel that this story remains an incredible landmark in the history of LGBT+ cinema. At the height of the AIDS epidemic when this movie was released, there was little call for positive queer representation in the media, let alone an almost utopian interracial relationship between a Pakistani man and a gay punk. Stephen Frears and Hanif Kureishi (the screenwriter) took an exceptional risk to create something magical and pure — something resembling a queer fairytale.” Kristin Haegelin (She/Her), OUTWrite

Please visit our accessibility page for more information. Beyond the description, trailer and quoted reviews on our website, other sources of information about content and age-appropriateness for specific films can be found on Common Sense Media and IMDb. We encourage you to research our films at your own informational interest level via the internet.

Trailer

powered by Filmbot