Gibraltar, Drama, 95 min
Original Title: My Beautiful Laundrette
Countries: Gibraltar
Styles: Drama
Duration (min): 95
Directors: Stephen Frears
Screenwriters: Hanif Kureishi
Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Gordon Warnecke, Roshan Seth, Saeed Jaffrey, Shirley Anne Field
Synopsis: 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.