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My Beautiful Laundrette

Superbly acted by Day-Lewis and Jaffrey, skillfully directed, My Beautiful Laundrette is timely, provocative and unique.

A movie like this lives or dies with its performances, and the actors in My Beautiful Laundrette are a fascinating group...

...is still fresh and remains a model case for creating moving, liberating cinema from an oppressive environment.

Director Stephen Frears and screenwriter Hanif Kureishi have fashioned a wonderfully fresh examination of the political and racial climate of Margaret Thatcher's Britain.

The movie has elements of a coming-of-age saga, a gay romance, a drug-smuggling thriller, and a redemption tale, but it works first and foremost as a portrait of a milieu...