My Beautiful Laundrette
Omar, a homosexual Pakistani boy living in London with his alcoholic father, lifts a chunk of drug money from another Pakistani and, with his lover Johnny, decides to renovate a grungy laundrette.
Romance, Drama, Comedy
Channel Four Films, Working Title Films, SAF Productions
Gordon Warnecke as Omar, Daniel Day-Lewis as Johnny, Roshan Seth as Papa, Saeed Jaffrey as Nasser, Derrick Branche as Salim, Rita Wolf as Tania N. Ali, Souad Faress as Cherry N. Ali, Shirley Anne Field as Rachel, Richard Graham as Genghis, Garry Cooper as Squatter, Charu Bala Chokshi as Bilquis, Persis Maravala as Nasser's Elder Daughter, Nisha Kapur as Nasir's Younger Daughter, Walter Donohue as Dick O'Donnell, Neil Cunningham as Englishman, Gurdial Sira as Zaki, Stephen Marcus as Moose, Ram John Holder as Poet, Dawn Archibald as Gang Member #1, Jonathan Moore as Gang Member #2, Gerard Horan as Telephone Man, Bhasker Patel as Tariq, Badi Uzzaman as Dealer, Ayub Khan-Din as Student, Dulice Liecier as Girl in Disco, Chris Pitt as Kid #1, Kerryann White as Kid #2, Colin Campbell (1937) as Madame Butterfly Man, Sheila Chitnis as Zaki's Wife, Winston Graham as Jamaican #1, Dudley Thomas as Jamaican #2