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My beautiful laundrette
Uniform Title
My beautiful laundrette (Motion picture)
Title
My beautiful laundrette / [written] by Hanif Kureishi ; produced by Sarah Radclyffe and Tim Bevan ; directed by Stephen Frears ; a Working Title Limited/SAF Productions production for Channel 4.
ISBN
1681430231
9781681430232
Edition
Director-approved Blu-ray special edition.
Publication
[New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2015]
Copyright Notice Date
© 2015
Physical Description
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Medium
4 3/4 in.
Notes
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1985.
Widescreen (1.66:1).
Special features: New conversation between director Stephen Frears and producer Colin MacCabe; New interviews with writer Hanif Kureishi, producers Tim Bevan and Sarah Radclyffe, and director of photography Oliver Stapleton; trailer. Plus: an essay on container insert "Postcolonialism in the wash" by film scholar Graham Fuller.
Director of photography, Oliver Stapleton ; editor, Mick Audsley ; music, Ludus Tonalis.
In English with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).
Summary
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), who volunteers to help make his dream a reality. This culture-clash comedy is also a subversive work of social realism, which dares to address racism, homophobia, and sociopolitical marginalization in Margaret Thatcher's England.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 17, 2017
Series
The Criterion collection ; 767
Credits
Director of photography, Oliver Stapleton ; editor, Mick Audsley ; music, Ludus Tonalis.
Cast
Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth, Daniel Day Lewis, Gordon Warnecke, Derrick Branche, Shirley Anne Field.
System details note
Blu-ray; region A; widescreen (1.66:1) presentation; LPCM 1.0 monaural.
Audience
MPAA rating: R.
Videorecording number
CC2511BD The Criterion Collection
Subjects
Genre/Form
Motion pictures - Great Britain.
Comedy films.
Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Comedy films.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Also listed under
Working Title Films, production company.
SAF Productions, production company.
Channel Four Films (Firm), production company.
Criterion Collection (Firm), film distributor, publisher.
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