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My Beautiful Laundrette (15)
Plymouth
Devon
PL4 8AT
Opening Times
| Season (5 Sept 2025 - 11 Sept 2025) |
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Prices
Ticket Prices
Standard £9.50
Matinees £7.50
Over 60 £8.25
25 & Under, Students, AUP Staff, Budget (unwaged/ low income) £4.50
Friends 10% discount and £6.50 on Tuesdays.
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About us
Friday 5 th – Thursday 11 th September
Fri 5, 6pm
Sat 6, 8pm
Wed 10, 2.30pm (Descriptive Subtitles)
Thu 11, 6pm
Dir. Stephen Frears, UK, 1985, 98 mins. Cast. Daniel Day-Lewis, Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth, Gordon
Warnecke, Shirley Anne Field.
My Beautiful Laundrette established the career of writer Hanif Kureishi, launched the cinema star
that is Daniel Day-Lewis and catapulted director Stephen Frears into the cinema fast lane. This
controversial culture-clash comedy captured the tensions of multiculturalism and Thatcherism whilst
its central gay inter racial relationship was both praised and criticised.
The film is the very definition of intersectionality! Today, the issues it grapples with still feels
relevant, and its deliberately awkward politics of new money, entrepreneurial possibility and
neoliberalism, coupled with the presence of disenfranchised white working class, and the
foregrounding of a gay relationship make the film resonate loudly 40 years on.
A 2K restoration supervised by director of photography Oliver Stapleton c/o Criterion, Park Circus
and Channel 4.
