My Beautiful Laundrette
Stephen Frears was at the forefront of the British cinematic revival of the mid-1980s, and the delightfully transgressive My Beautiful Laundrette is his greatest triumph of the period. Working from a richly layered script by Hanif Kureishi, who was soon to be an internationally renowned writer, Frears tells an uncommon love story that takes place between a young South London Pakistani man (Gordon Warnecke), who decides to open an upscale laundromat to make his family proud, and his childhood friend, a skinhead (Daniel Day-Lewis, in a breakthrough role) who volunteers to help make his dream a reality. This culture-clash comedy is also a subversive work of social realism that dares to address racism, homophobia, and sociopolitical marginalization in Margaret Thatcher’s England.
Director-Approved Special Edition Features
- New, restored 2K digital transfer, supervised by director of photography Oliver Stapleton, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New conversation between director Stephen Frears and producer Colin MacCabe
- New interviews with writer Hanif Kureishi, producers Tim Bevan and Sarah Radclyffe, and Stapleton
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by critic Graham Fuller
New cover by Eric Skillman
Director-Approved Special Edition Features
- New, restored 2K digital transfer, supervised by director of photography Oliver Stapleton, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New conversation between director Stephen Frears and producer Colin MacCabe
- New interviews with writer Hanif Kureishi, producers Tim Bevan and Sarah Radclyffe, and Stapleton
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by critic Graham Fuller
New cover by Eric Skillman
Cast
- Saeed Jaffrey
- Nasser
- Roshan Seth
- Papa
- Daniel Day-Lewis
- Johnny
- Gordon Warnecke
- Omar
- Derrick Branche
- Salim
- Shirley Anne Field
- Rachel
- Charu Bala Chokshi
- Bilquis
- Souad Faress
- Cherry
- Rita Wolf
- Tania
- Richard Graham
- Genghis
- Gurdial Sira
- Zaki
- Stephen Marcus
- Moose
Credits
- Director
- Stephen Frears
- Writer
- Hanif Kureishi
- Producers
- Sarah Radclyffe
- Producers
- Tim Bevan
- Director of photography
- Oliver Stapleton
- Editor
- Mick Audsley
- Production design
- Hugo Luczyc Wyhowski
- Music
- Ludus Tonalis
- Casting
- Debbie McWilliams
- Costume designer
- Lindy Hemming
- Makeup
- Elaine Carew
- Sound recordist
- Albert Bailey
