Faber & Faber

My Beautiful Laundrette: Hanif Kureishi

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Synopsis:

Omar is a restless young Asian man, caring for his alcoholic father in the hustling London of the mid-1980s. His uncle, a keen Thatcherite, offers Omar an entrepreneurial opportunity to revamp a dingy laundrette, and ambitious Omar rolls up his sleeves, enlisting the assistance of his old school-friend Johnny, who has since fallen in with a gang of neo-fascists. Omar and Johnny soon form an unlikely alliance that leads to business success, as well as other, more intimate surprises.

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Music, Stage & Screen

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Screenplays

Places:

London

Genres & Themes:

Families; Homosexuality; Multiculturalism; Outsiders