Frears, Stephen, Branche, Derrick, Day-Lewis, Daniel, Jaffrey, Saeed, Seth, Roshan, Warnecke, Gordon	...	(Director)
Hanif Kureishi	...	(Writer)
Saeed Jaffrey	...	Nasser Ali
Roshan Seth	...	Hussein Ali
Daniel Day-Lewis	...	Johnny
Gordon Warnecke	...	Omar Ali
Derrick Branche	...	Salim N. Ali
Rita Wolf	...	Tania N. Ali
Souad Faress	...	Cherry N. Ali
Richard Graham	...	Genghis
Shirley Anne Field	...	Rachel
Winston Graham	...	Jamaican One
Charu Bala Chokshi	...	Bilquis
Dudley Thomas	...	Jamaican Two
Garry Cooper	...	Squatter
Neil Cunningham	...	Englishman
Persis Maravala	...	Nasser's Elder Daughter

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Summary: With its "extraordinary cast" (Los Angeles Times)including OscarÂ(r) winner* Daniel Day Lewisand "riveting visual style" (Newsweek), this "warm, compassionate and feisty" film (The Hollywood Reporter) about a young Pakistani man coming of age in London is "a fascinating, eccentric [and] very personal movie" (The New York Times)! Living on the dole with his alcoholic father in a shabby South London flat, Omar is a bright-eyed Pakistani teenager who wants to make something of himself. And as his papa drowns deeper in vodka and self-pity, Omar turns to his unscrupulous wheeling-and-dealing Uncle Nasser to show him the key to success. But when Nasser hires Omar as manager of a seedy, dilapidated laundromat, Omar is forced to choose between running a squeaky-clean establishmentor conducting some very dirty business! *1989: Actor,My Left Foot