Laundrette

Stephen Frears's endearing, intelligent "Laundrette" is a dramatic, often humorous study of bigotry, sexuality, and social mobility in Thatcher-era Britain.

John Farr: The Value Of Milk, and The Best Gay-Themed Movies By Farr 2009

The Burning (1967), Stephen FrearsFollowing the break-out success of his film My Beautiful Laundrette in 1985, Stephen Frears directed Dangerous Liaisons (1988), High Fidelity (2000), Oscar-winning The Queen (2006) and Tamara Drewe, currently in cinemas.

Britain's best film directors show some early promise Philip French 2010

Stephen Frears (My Beautiful Laundrette, The Grifters, Dirty Pretty Things, and The Queen, to name a few) brings intelligence and taste to every film he tackles, and he's on top of his game in this adaptation of Posy Simmonds 'graphic novel, inspired by Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd.

Leonard Maltin: Off-Hollywood: The Five Indie Films Worth Seeing This Month Leonard Maltin 2010

The man has been responsible for some of the biggest British films of the past 25 years, from 1985′s ‘My Beautiful Laundrette’, through the excellent ‘Prick Up Your Ears’ with Gary Oldman and the underappreciated classic ‘The Van’, to modern behemoths ‘The Deal’ and ‘The Queen’.

Countdown to Cannes 2010: The Films: TAMARA DREWE | Obsessed With Film 2010

But in films as superficially different as My Beautiful Laundrette, Dangerous Liaisons and Dirty Pretty Things, he's shown an interest in certain recurrent themes and situations, among them the taking of moral decisions in precarious situations, the secret manipulation of other people's lives and the ironic, usually unintended, consequences of our everyday actions.

Tamara Drewe 2010

My Beautiful Laundrette -- rocked my 16-year-old world on pretty much every front.

SeeLight: 2008

My Beautiful Laundrette -- rocked my 16-year-old world on pretty much every front.

Teen Movies 2008

My Beautiful Laundrette (1986) - Omar (Gordon Warnecke) is a young Pakistani Londoner who gets a shot at living the capitalist dream when his mob-connected Uncle Nasser (Saeed Jaffrey) asks him to manage a ramshackle laundromat.

John Farr: The Value Of Milk, and The Best Gay-Themed Movies By Farr 2009

Some of my other work has already been adapted to the stage but not by me: "My Beautiful Laundrette," "Buddha of Suburbia" has been done, as well as "The Mother."

Kureishi Remixes 'The Black Album' Elizabeth Fitzherbert 2009

Frears showed his flair for film noir in "Gumshoe" (1971), and his mastery of complex tones in movies as diverse as "My Beautiful Laundrette" and "Dangerous Liaisons."

Con-Artist Classic 2008