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Sweepingly compared with its contemporary Letter to Brezhnev, Laundrette indeed revolves around a tale of young cross-cultural love. But whereas the sleazy, raucous bulk of Brezhnev worked as a foil ...

Omar Ali (appealing Gordon Warnecke) is a young, unemployed Pakistani living with his alcoholic father, Hussein (Roshan Seth), once a celebrated left-wing journalist, now full of self-pity and ...

Gordon Warnecke: ‘Daniel Day-Lewis and I were forever kissing people. We were constantly tipping back Listerine’ When Hanif Kureishi’s script arrived through my letterbox, I wanted to shoot it right ...

Daniel Day-Lewis and Gordon Warnecke. It’s been 30 years since Channel 4 pushed its ground-breaking drama My Beautiful Laundrette off the TV screen and into cinemas and then all the way to the Oscars ...

PREMISE Omar (Warnecke), a young Londoner of Pakistani descent, and his white lover, Johnny (Day-Lewis), turn Omar’s uncle’s laundrette (that’s a laundromat to us Yanks) into a hip hotspot, ...

In a fraught working-class suburb of South London in the early 1980s, My Beautiful Laundrette tells the story of a young man with dreams of living on his own terms. The play follows Omar (Lucca ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alec Berg ("Silicon Valley") and Hanif Kureishi (writer of the original "Laundrette") will executive produce with Stephen Gaghan ( ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Directed by Stephen Frears from a screenplay by Hanif Kureishi, “My Beautiful Laundrette” charts a British Pakistini man (Gordon ...

The mood of south London in the 1980s - oppressively grey but shot through with racial and political tensions - is vividly captured by Stephen Frears in his breakthrough film, made for Channel 4 but ...