Redundant and unnecessary.

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Just as greed became good in the Reagan 80s in America it was also a virtue in Thatcher Great Britain of the same era. A lot of people, all kinds of people came to the United Kingdom to make their fame and fortune. Among them the Hussein family from Pakistan who get into a lot of businesses, some of them illegal.In this day and age of terrorism and fear of imposed Sharia law this family would be quite an eye opener. For one thing the wine flows freely, something religious Moslem families just don't indulge in. They're about the same as any Christian families in Great Britain, their share of black sheep as well. No one is looking to be a terrorist, they're too busy making money. Robert Walpole would have been proud.But outsiders there are and a lot of native British don't like these immigrants. The same as on this side of the pond, the new arrivals usually have it rough getting their place at the table.Gay though is still something they're not quite ready for and young Omar played by Gordon Warnecke isn't ready for coming out. He's got some money from a cousin to open a laundromat in their neighborhood. And he gets one of the neighborhood kids played by a young Daniel Day-Lewis to run it.Day-Lewis isn't exactly ready for coming out among his peers, a gang of punks whose descendants were leading the cheers for Brexit. Still things at business and in their personal lives it's a rough go, but they manage.My Beautiful Laundrette is quite the commentary on the Thatcher era in the United Kingdom as well as a nice gay love story. You'll enjoy it best seeing it on both levels.

I rewatched this movie for the second time and I still can't believe it was made in 1985 and it's still as relevant today as it was in the 80's. This movie was ahead of its time and is too underrated. I absolutely love the take on Omar and Johnny, and their blossoming romance among the other plot. I just love how they don't bother explaining about their relationship, it' just is there, like in many movies with romantic plot lines. Great movie, everyone should see this. And I loved the ending.

Starring a very young and dashing Daniel Day-Lewis and an relatively unknown but charming Gordon Warnecke, this is a movie set in the 1980s in the UK and deals with the issues of that time. It's a very subtle film that keeps you pondering what the characters are thinking and why they do the things they do. The two leads are very good-looking (together, too) and share a certain chemistry that's very at ease and comfortable, much like their relationship. No budding romance, they kind of just meld together and deal with the things that happen in the film.Mostly it deals with race issues and subtle homophobia. Omar (Warnecke) is smart and rather cunning, trying to make the business his uncle gives him successful. He employs a childhood friend and street punk (who he hasn't seen since he left school), Johnny (Day-Lewis) to help him run the business and deal with the riff-raff. The two have to deal with the expectations of Omar's family and the snide remarks Johnny's street "friends" make about him working for a Paki.(Also, some people who watched the film got confused about Tania's role in all this?? I thought it was obvious. She made advances on Omar but didn't get any reaction. Omar gets pressured to ask for her hand in marriage from his family, but nothing really comes of it. Johnny gets jealous and goes gallivanting with Tania to make Omar jealous. But all this happens in a very quiet way i.e. their intentions aren't clear unless you think about it. In the end Tania realizes they only have eyes for each other and she was kind of a pawn in their plans)I can't help but add that the two leads are super hot together. I like the secondary and tertiary characters too. The film feels very real and believable. Kind of slice of life but bigger.

My Beautiful Laundrette is one of the most over-hyped movies I've ever seen. But then again there's an explanation: As one of the first ever real gay-themed movies, it was praised just for the very fact it talked about the Pakistani community and had a gay aspect. Two things that just weren't done before. But does it make it a good movie? No. It's long, boring, difficult to understand because it jumps from scene to scene without ever really settling on anything, and there are two many characters introduced at the same time (most with mind-numbingly boring story lines), too many things that are implied but never really said out loud. It could be "subtle" but it just ends up being "confusing". In the end, it's a movie that wants to be about being gay, but also about being Pakistani in London, but also about being a white thug / homeless young guy in 80s London, but also about being a young closeted guy, and also about a guy turning an old business into a new shiny one, while also being about drug dealers, and about standing up to your community for love (a la Romeo and Juliette). In short, the film never knows what it wants to be about, and all is lost. I think most people who love this movie are the people who saw it when it had just come out and THEY had just come out as well (or were about to, or something) - I'm sure there's a very emotional connection to this movie for a lot of people, that is completely unrelated to the actual film's worth.