My Beautiful Laundrette

Author: Kureishi, Hanif

Film scripts & screenplays

Published on 21 February 2000 by FABER & FABER in the United Kingdom as part of 'the FF Classics' series.

Paperback / softback | 80 pages
111 x 176 x 6 | 52g

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.