My Beautiful Laundrette 1985 123movies

Watch: My Beautiful Laundrette 1985 123movies, Full Movie Online – Much of the Pakistani Hussein family has settled in London, striving for the riches promised by Thatcherism. Nasser and his right hand man, Salim, have a number of small businesses and they do whatever they need to make money, even if the activities are illegal. As such, Nasser and his immediate family live more than a comfortable lifestyle, and he flaunts his riches whenever he can. Meanwhile, his brother, alcoholic Ali, once a famous journalist in Pakistan, lives in a seedy flat with his son, Omar. Ali’s life in London is not as lucrative in part because of his left leaning politics, which does not mesh with the ideals of Thatcherism. To help his brother, Nasser gives Omar a job doing menial labor. But Omar, with bigger plans, talks Nasser into letting him manage Nasser’s run down laundrette. Omar seizes what he sees as an opportunity to make the laundrette a success, and employs an old friend, Johnny – who has been most recently running around with a gang of white punks – to help him. Johnny and Omar have a special relationship, but one that has gone through its ups and downs, the downs fostered by anti-immigration sentiments of white England. Omar and Johnny each have to evaluate if their ideals of success are worth it at all cost..
Plot: A Pakistani Briton renovates a rundown laundrette with his male lover while dealing with drama within his family, the local Pakistani community, and a persistent mob of skinheads.
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Ratings:

	6.8/10 Votes: 16,266
	98% | RottenTomatoes
	75/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 204 Popularity: 9.534 | TMDB

Reviews:

A Pleasant Surprise
We saw this movie when it was first released on the big screen. It just happen to start when we needed a movie to so we had no idea what to expect. What a pleasant surprise this film was. Daniel Day Lewis (in one of his earliest roles) stars with Gordon Warnecke in this unconventional love story. Warnecke plays young Omar, who is given the opprtunity to run his uncle’s laundrette. He enlists the aid of his ex-lover, Johnny (played by Lewis) to get the business back on it’s feet. The scene in the laundrette that includes Omar and Johnny in the foreground and Omar’s uncle and his mistress in the background, is one of the most sensual celluloid scenes I ever scene.

If you are looking for something good and out of the ordinary, I would recommend this one.

multicultural gay love story
Johnny Burfoot (Daniel Day-Lewis) is a squatter in rundown abandoned houses. Hussein “Papa” Ali gets his son Omar a job with his successful uncle Nasser at his car wash. Papa is a drunken disillusioned socialist reporter from Bombay. Omar gets hassled by a group of whites but he is saved by their leader Johnny who is his childhood friend. Nasser lets Omar manage the run down laundrette. Omar hires Johnny to work for him.

Director Stephen Frears brings some of the new Pakistani flavor into his London movie. I don’t think Gordon Warnecke is particularly nuanced and is not really leading man material. Frears has the great fortune of casting Daniel Day-Lewis. He’s wonderful and so is Roshan Seth. The look is more or less TV production level. This has some very compelling scenes dealing with very serious issues.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 37 min (97 min)
Budget 860000
Revenue 2451545
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director Stephen Frears
Writer Hanif Kureishi
Actors Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth, Daniel Day-Lewis
Country United Kingdom
Awards Nominated for 1 Oscar. 6 wins & 6 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.66 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Technicolor, London, UK (processing)
Film Length 2,665 m (Sweden)
Negative Format 16 mm
Cinematographic Process Super 16
Printed Film Format 35 mm (spherical) (blow-up) (Eastman 5384)