MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE is a highly acclaimed and beautifully rendered portrait of two boyhood friends struggling to survive in racially tense Thatcher-era Britain. Omar, a homosexual Pakistani boy living in London with his alcoholic father. He lifts a chunk of drug money from another Pakistani and, with his school chum and lover Johnny, decides to renovate a grungy laundrette, while at the same time negotiating complex relationships with his family, Pakistani immigrant culture, and Johnny and his working class gang.