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Release Date:
April 1986 (USA) morePlot:
An ambitious Asian Briton and his white lover strive for success and hope, when they open up a glamorous laundromat. full summary | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Nominated for Oscar. Another 5 wins & 3 nominations moreNewsDesk:
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Bond Star Craig Picks Up Best Actor Award (From WENN. 5 February 2007)
'Vera Drake' Steals British Film Award Ceremony (From WENN. 8 February 2005)
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Kureishi at his best moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Saeed Jaffrey | ... | Nasser | |
| Roshan Seth | ... | Papa | |
| Daniel Day-Lewis | ... | Johnny (as Daniel Day Lewis) | |
| Gordon Warnecke | ... | Omar | |
| Derrick Branche | ... | Salim | |
| Rita Wolf | ... | Tania | |
| Souad Faress | ... | Cherry | |
| Richard Graham | ... | Genghis | |
| Shirley Anne Field | ... | Rachel | |
| Winston Graham | ... | Jamaican One | |
| Charu Bala Chokshi | ... | Bilquis (as Charu Bala Choksi) | |
| Dudley Thomas | ... | Jamaican Two | |
| Garry Cooper | ... | Squatter | |
| Neil Cunningham | ... | Englishman | |
| Persis Maravala | ... | Nasser's Elder Daughter |
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1.66 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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Australia:M | Iceland:16 | Argentina:18 | Finland:K-16 | France:U | South Korea:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 | USA:R | West Germany:16MOVIEmeter: 
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Johnny: [driving Cherry and Salim home, Omar stops by a bunch of street kids, one of whom is Johnny. Omar gets out of the car to talk to Johnny][indicating his friends]
Johnny: Like me friends?
Omar: Ring us then.
Johnny: I will.
[indicates the car where Cherry is getting very angry]
Johnny: Leave 'em there. We can do something. Now. Just us.
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Johnny and Omar live in a world of multiple cogenerating, coexisting, modifying, negating, enforcing and enhancing forms of discrimination -- racism, sexism, groupism, homophobia, cultural elitism, snobbery, reverse colonialism, neocolonialism and fascism -- which they successfully grapple and topple in the form of their launderette with the power of economic enterprise. These squabbling goblins are left to each others excesses as economic success lifts them up and out of these, but many questions remain: will they remain; would others succeed; what does luck have to do with it? Kureshi has pissed off all groups who find themselves part of this smashing satire, prime among them the identity conscious confused second/third generation Subcontinental British kids, the same contingency that staunchly supported the Rushdie fatwa. Brilliant and stupendously enjoyable.