Also Known As: A Minha Bela Lavandaria
Company: Channel Four Films / SAF Productions / Working Title Films
Aspect Ratio: 1.66 : 1
Plot: Much of the Pakistani Hussein family has settled in London, striving for the riches promised by Thatcherism. Nasser and his right hand man, Salim, have a number of small businesses and they do whatever they need to make money, even if the activities are illegal. As such, Nasser and his immediate family live more than a comfortable lifestyle, and he flaunts his riches whenever he can. Meanwhile, his brother, alcoholic Ali, once a famous journalist in Pakistan, lives in a seedy flat with his son, Omar. Ali's life in London is not as lucrative in part because of his left leaning politics, which does not mesh with the ideals of Thatcherism. To help his brother, Nasser gives Omar a job doing menial labor. But Omar, with bigger plans, talks Nasser into letting him manage Nasser's run down laundrette. Omar seizes what he sees as an opportunity to make the laundrette a success, and employs an old friend, Johnny - who has been most recently running around with a gang of white punks - to help ...
Cast and Character: Saeed Jaffrey as Nasser Ali / Roshan Seth as Hussein Ali / Daniel Day-Lewis as Johnny / Gordon Warnecke as Omar Ali / Derrick Branche as Salim N. Ali / Rita Wolf as Tania N. Ali / Souad Faress as Cherry N. Ali / Richard Graham as Genghis / Shirley Anne Field as Rachel / Winston Graham as Jamaican One / Charu Bala Chokshi as Bilquis / Dudley Thomas as Jamaican Two / Garry Cooper as Squatter / Neil Cunningham as Englishman / Persis Maravala as Nasser's Elder Daughter
Trailer: n/A
Creators: n/A
Description: An ambitious Asian Briton and his white lover strive for success and hope, when they open up a glamorous laundromat.
Directors: Stephen Frears
Genres: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Location: 245 Queenstown Road, Battersea, London, England, UK
MPAA: R
Opening Weekend: n/A
Poster: posters/0091578.jpg
Rating: 6.9
Release Date: April 1986 (USA)
Runtime: 97 min
Seasons: n/A
Sound Mix: Mono
Tagline: n/A
Title: My Beautiful Laundrette
Trailer:
Url: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091578/
Votes: 7,824
Writers: Hanif Kureishi
Year: 1985
My Beautiful Laundrette got rated 6.9.
About the movie: Much of the Pakistani Hussein family has settled in London, striving for the riches promised by Thatcherism. Nasser and his right hand man, Salim, have a number of small businesses and they do whatever they need to make money, even if the activities are illegal. As such, Nasser and his immediate family live more than a comfortable lifestyle, and he flaunts his riches whenever he can. Meanwhile, his brother, alcoholic Ali, once a famous journalist in Pakistan, lives in a seedy flat with his son, Omar. Ali's life in London is not as lucrative in part because of his left leaning politics, which does not mesh with the ideals of Thatcherism. To help his brother, Nasser gives Omar a job doing menial labor. But Omar, with bigger plans, talks Nasser into letting him manage Nasser's run down laundrette. Omar seizes what he sees as an opportunity to make the laundrette a success, and employs an old friend, Johnny - who has been most recently running around with a gang of white punks - to help ...
Le souffle au coeur got rated 7.7.
About the movie: This is a jolly coming-of-age story about a 14-year-old boy named Laurent Chevalier who is growing up in bourgeois surroundings in Dijon, France. This is France in the mid-1950s rather than America in the 1990s. Thus, Laurent is unharmed by events which would irreparably shatter the self-esteem of a modern American adolescent: he gets drunk, he smokes, he has sex, he is smothered by his mother, he is ignored by his father, a priest makes a pass at him, he gets rheumatoid fever, etc. There's enough scandalous behavior in this film to make 100 made-for-TV movies, and yet this is a very happy and oddly innocent tale.
Moonstruck got rated 7.0.
About the movie: Loretta Castorini, a Brooklyn bookkeeper in her late 30s whose husband died several years earlier in a bus accident, decides it's time to get married again. So she accepts the proposal of a nice, middle-aged fellow named Johnny Cammareri. Loretta is convinced her first marriage was cursed because she and her husband had gotten married at City Hall; this time, she's determined to do things right, even as she admits to her mother, Rose, that she's not really in love with Johnny. (To which Rose replies: "Good. When you love them, they drive you crazy, 'cause they know they can." Rose speaks from rueful experience; she suspects, with good reason, that her husband, Cosmo, is cheating on her.) Loretta is convinced that marrying Johnny is the safe and sure thing to do - until she meets his estranged younger brother Ronny, who tends the ovens in a neighborhood bakery. Loretta discovers that in startling contrast to the pleasant, mild-mannered Johnny, Ronny is moody and passionate; what follow...
The Misfits got rated 7.3.
About the movie: Roslyn divorces Ray in Reno and then meets widower Guido. He likes her but introduces her to cowboy Gay, and those two fall in love. When she learns that Gay, Guido and Perce are going to turn wild horses ("misfits") into dog food, she protests.
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