Top billed cast

1. 

   Gordon Warnecke

   Omar Ali

2. 

   Daniel Day-Lewis

   Johnny Burfoot

3. 

   Roshan Seth

   Hussein "Papa" Ali

4. 

   Saeed Jaffrey

   Nasser Ali

5. 

   Derrick Branche

   Salim N. Ali

6. 

   Rita Wolf

   Tania N. Ali

7. 

   Souad Faress

   Cherry N. Ali

8. 

   Shirley Anne Field

   Rachel

9. 

   Richard Graham

   Genghis

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2025-07-16

This was always my favourite of the early slew of films commissioned by Channel Four. At the time it was trendy to make sure that every film was “edgy” and determined to make some sort of social point about the supposed iniquities of “Thatcherism”. This one is a bit more subtle about that, presenting an hybrid of a love story married with a critique on a racially charged environment in which the thuggish and the venal were almost equally complicit. We meet the handsome young “Omar” (Gordon Warnecke) who has been affectionately looking after his dipso dad (Roshan Seth) for a while u...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$860,000.00

Revenue
$2,451,545.00

Keywords

• london, england
• skinhead
• society
• fascism
• immigration
• family business
• laundromat
• working class
• racism
• car dealership
• racial tension
• laundry
• lgbt
• alcoholic father
• star crossed lovers
• 1980s
• skinheads
• gay theme
• british asian
• thatcherism
• punk
• business owner
• 16mm film
• margaret thatcher