A young Pakistani Briton manages a rundown laundrette with his lover while dealing with tension in his family, the local Pakistani community, and a persistent mob of skinheads.
My Beautiful Laundrette has generally received positive reviews.
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My Beautiful Laundrette was released in 1985 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 209 reviews, giving My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) an average rating of 70%.
Overall, film critics marginally prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 80%, compared to cinema-goers, who gave it a slightly lower average score of 76%.
With a score of 70%, My Beautiful Laundrette is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1985, which stands at 59%.
Other movies from 1985 with similar scores include films like Clue, Vampire Hunter D and Runaway Train.
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