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My Beautiful Laundrette; Dalva; The Missouri Breaks; The Weight of Water

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Stephen Dalton
The Times
Stephen Dalton
The Times

My Beautiful Laundrette (1985), Film4, 11pm

A whimsical fantasy about interracial gay lovers in 1980s London,My Beautiful Laundrette was hailed on release for its bold mockery of Thatcherite values. It owes much of its historical appeal to Daniel Day-Lewis, who makes his breakthrough role as a politically confused cockney bootboy, helping his Asian lover (Gordon Warnecke) to realise his dream of opening a laundrette. Scripted by the novelist Hanif Kureishi and directed by Stephen Frears (The Queen), it remains a charming oddity, although with little residual shock value in our liberated climate. Legend has it that Day-Lewis won the part by sending Frears a letter threatening to break his legs. (96min)

Dalva (TVM, 1996), Five, 1.40pm

Tearjerking family-reunion drama. Farrah Fawcett’s remorseful mother seeks out the child she gave up for adoption in her teens. (96min)

The Missouri Breaks (1976), ITV4, 10pm

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Marlon Brando goofs around while Jack Nicholson rustles cattle in director Arthur Penn’s ponderous, uneven, bizarro western. (126min)

The Weight of Water (2000), BBC One, times vary

Kathryn Bigelow’s classy but muddled thriller, which weaves a contemporary love triangle around a true 19th-century murder story. Sean Penn leads a starry cast. (113min)