My Beautiful Laundrette

Category: Blu-Ray

Stephen Frears was at the forefront of the British cinematic revival of the mid-1980s, and the delightfully transgressive My Beautiful Laundrette is his greatest triumph of the period. Working from a richly layered script by Hanif Kureishi, who was soon to be an internationally renowned writer, Frears tells an uncommon love story that takes place between a young South London Pakistani man (Gordon Warnecke), who decides to open an upscale laundromat to make his family proud, and his childhood friend, a skinhead (Daniel Day-Lewis, in a breakthrough role) who volunteers to help make his dream a reality. This culture-clash comedy is also a subversive work of social realism that dares to address racism, homophobia, and sociopolitical marginalization in Margaret Thatcher’s England.DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURESRestored 2K digital transfer, supervised by director of photography Oliver Stapleton, with uncompressed monaural soundtrackConversation between director Stephen Frears and producer Colin MacCabeInterviews with writer Hanif Kureishi, producers Tim Bevan and Sarah Radclyffe, and StapletonTrailerEnglish subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearingPLUS: An essay by critic Graham FullerNew cover by Eric Skillman