My Beautiful Laundrette out now on Blu-ray & DVD | BFI

Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, directed by Stephen Frears and written by Hanif Kureishi, this landmark 80s British drama is available now on Dual Format Edition Blu-ray & DVD
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In Stephen Frears’ controversial and hugely successful drama, Omar (Gordon Warnecke), a son of a Pakistani immigrant, embarks on a venture to renovate his uncle's laundrette with the help of his childhood friend, ex-National Front member Johnny (Daniel Day Lewis).
Now available for the first time on Blu-ray in the UK, My Beautiful Laundrette remains ground-breaking in its bold exploration of issues of sexuality, race, class and generational difference. Heralded as one of Britain's most commercially and critically successful films of 1986, it earned Hanif Kureishi an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay as well as launching the career of Daniel Day-Lewis.
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[@globaldenny]

As a gay teen growing up in the 1980s, I must've viewed this film dozens of times, yet as an adult, I had all but forgotten it. I am so glad I recently rewatched it with the knowledge & perspective only age can bring. My Beautiful Launderette remains a wonderful film and its subtext is much deeper than any teenager could've ever appreciated.

[@DarkEliteEric]

lovely

[@perlarossa]

I'm not gay but I think that this masterpiece touches everyone ... despite appearances is not a simple job, the psychologies of the characters are very complex, the issues addressed are varied and very important and interracial relations, degradation, unbridled liberalism, despair and of course the homosexuality described 30 years ago are current for today's Italy. Anyway, I had already seen something like this in France, where I lived in those years. Always and only W My Beautiful Laundrette and the wonderful Daniel Day-Lewis and Gordon Warnecke

[@Charli3Sutt0n]

What has being gay got to do W anything

[@treesny]

Ummm... you do know that the central love story in My Beautiful Laundrette is between two men, don't you? And that in 1985, films that took a positive view of intimate same-sex relations were very, very rare? The Merchant/Ivory film of E.M. Forster's Maurice -- which Forster wouldn't publish during his lifetime, as it was about love between men -- came two years later, in 1987. I remember seeing both of these films back then with great gratitude! @@Charli3Sutt0n

[@brucebosch9362]

Been watching this beautiful masterpiece 1000 times over and over for the past 30 years. It made me wanna fall in love and be loved back - and it still does. It saddens me to realise that I have never experienced this and makes me wonder if I ever will. Oh - I have fallen in love and have been loved, but never the two at the same time. Does this only happen in movies? I am still hopeful though that one day I will be blessed to experience this. And I am still in love with this masterpiece.

[@perlarossa]

Me too! ❤️

[@user-nh4kh4zs6g]

DANIEL!!! UNICO!!! MAGNIFICO!!!❤❤❤

[@burlhorse61]

this movie stands out so much-as a gay icon

[@Budcat101]

Totally agree with Denny Jones
I was an adult just coming out

[@almadelatierra5153]

They’ve cut off the rest what???

[@user-ps4ly3xw5k]

❤❤❤❤

[@sonsofthetribe]

Morrisey

[@leonoir]

bruh

[@Voeris1]

lol what do you mean 😆

[@terry.chootiyaa]

*How gay is this movie 😐*

[@DarkEliteEric]

?

[@patoises]

how duh is this comment