My Beautiful Laundrette

Described by Stuart Hall as ''one of the most riveting and important films produced by a black writer in recent years'', My Beautiful Laundrette was a significant production for its director Stephen Frears and its writer Hanif Kureshi. Omar, member of a Pakistani family ''getting ahead'' in 1980s Thatcher''s Britain is charged to make over a rundown launderette, and in the process falls in love wi...