An ambitious Pakistani Briton and his white boyfriend strive for success and hope when they open a glamorous laundromat.An ambitious Pakistani Briton and his white boyfriend strive for success and hope when they open a glamorous laundromat.An ambitious Pakistani Briton and his white boyfriend strive for success and hope when they open a glamorous laundromat.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 6 wins & 6 nominations total
Daniel Day-Lewis
- Johnny
- (as Daniel Day Lewis)
Charu Bala Chokshi
- Bilquis
- (as Charu Bala Choksi)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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Did you know
- TriviaThis film and A Room with a View (1985) both opened in New York on the same day, March 7, 1986. Both movies featured Daniel Day-Lewis in prominent and very different roles: in A Room with a View, he played a repressed, snobbish Edwardian upperclassman, while in Laundrette, he played a lower-class gay ex-skinhead in love with an ambitious Pakistani businessman in Thatcher's London. When American critics saw Day-Lewis, who was then virtually unknown in the US, in two such different roles on the same day, many (including Roger Ebert of The Chicago Sun-Times and Sheila Benson of the LA Times) raved about the talent it must have taken him to play such vastly different characters. In his review of My Beautiful Laundrette, Roger Ebert wrote, "A movie like this lives or dies with its performances, and the actors in 'My Beautiful Laundrette' are a fascinating group of unknowns.... The character of Johnny may cause you to blink if you've just seen the wonderful 'A Room with a View.' He is played by Daniel Day-Lewis, the same actor who, in 'Room,' plays the heroine's affected fiancee, Cecil. Seeing these two performances side by side is an affirmation of the miracle of acting: That one man could play these two opposites is astonishing."
- ConnectionsFeatured in Hooray for Holyrood (1986)
Featured review
For its time MBL was a break through movie. London is a very complicated place for colonials and for punks. As the friendship between the boys develops- complications arise. What I liked about this film was its unpretentiousness. You can hear and almost smell the various neighborhoods of London. And Daniel Day Lewis certainly showed his potential for the star he would become.
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Languages
- Also known as
- Mein wunderbarer Waschsalon
- Filming locations
- 245 Queenstown Road, Battersea, London, England, UK(papa's flat)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- £650,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $2,451,545
- Gross worldwide
- $2,460,977
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