My Beautiful Laundrette

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de Hanif Kureishi

Type

Screenplays

Sujet

One Film > My Beautiful Laundrette

Mots Clés

Stephen Frears, screenplay

Année d'édition

2000

Editeur

Faber & Faber

Collection

Classic Screenplays

Langue

anglais

Taille du livre

Format

Paperback • ? pages
5 x 8 inches (12.5 x 20 cm)

ISBN-10
ISBN-13

0-571-20254-3
978-0-571-20254-6

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Description de l'ouvrage:
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.

À propos de l'auteur :
Hanif Kureishi was born and brought up in Kent. He read philosophy at King’s College, London. In 1981 he won the George Devine Award for his plays Outskirts and Borderline, and in 1982 he was appointed Writer-in-Residence at the Royal Court Theatre. In 1984 he wrote My Beautiful Laundrette, which received an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay. His second screenplay Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987) was…

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