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My Beautiful Laundrette

1985 · 98 min

A lively, sharp-eyed slice of 1980s London life, mixing warmth and grit with a defiant romantic spark.

Tagline: A sharp, sophisticated, funny, sexy, compassionate picture.
Overview: A young Pakistani Briton manages a rundown laundrette with his lover while dealing with tension in his family, the local Pakistani community, and a persistent mob of skinheads.

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Tone: warmstrength 2 of 3
satiricalstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: identity
race
class
love
family
Places: big city
workplace
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: ensemble
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language strong
Violence strong
Sex strong

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Scales, 0 to 10
Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	3
Horror	1
Humour	6
Realism	8
Romance	6
Tension	6
Darkness	6
Complexity	7
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: comedy, drama, romance
Directed by: Stephen Frears
Written by: Hanif Kureishi
Starring: Gordon Warnecke, Daniel Day-Lewis, Roshan Seth, Saeed Jaffrey, Derrick Branche, Rita Wolf, Souad Faress, Shirley Anne Field
Music: Stanley Myers, Hans Zimmer
Cinematography: Oliver Stapleton
Runtime: 98 min
Country: United Kingdom
Languages: English, Urdu

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