{"product_id":"9781850434146","title":"\"My Beautiful Laundrette\"","description":"\u003cp\u003eDescribed by Stuart Hall as 'one of the most riveting and important films produced by a black writer in recent years', My Beautiful Laundrette was a significant production for its director Stephen Frears and its writer Hanif Kureshi. Omar, member of a Pakistani family 'getting ahead' in 1980s Thatcher's Britain is charged to make over a rundown launderette, and in the process falls in love with the brooding Johnny (Daniel Day Lewis in career-making form). Christine Geraghty interrogates My Beautiful Laundrette as a crossover film: between television and cinema, realism and fantasy, and as an independent film targeting a popular audience. She deftly shows how it has remained an important and watchable film in the 1990s and early 2000s and her exploration of the film itself is a remarkable, original and entertaining achievement.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Christine Geraghty","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52772680925502,"sku":"9781850434146","price":962.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4357\/7662\/files\/9781850434146.jpg?v=1766412032","url":"https:\/\/exclusivebooks.co.za\/products\/9781850434146","provider":"Exclusive Books Online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}