Film
My Beautiful Laundrette
- Director
- Stephen Frears
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 97 mins
From 1985, ‘British Film Year’ (remember that?), comes Hanif Kureishi’s assault on Fatcher’s Britain (remember that too?), directed by Stephen Frears with a young Daniel Day Lewis as a former NF thug who falls for a gay Asian youth.
One hesitates to criticise the most popular film in Watershed history, but can we now admit that this was very much of its time, painfully right-on, and features some pretty ropy acting?
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