Word: hanif
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Written by Hanif Kureishi...
...SAMMY and Rosie Get Laid is not a pornographic film. It is, as the title suggests, a provocative film. It is also another triumph from Hanif Kureishi and Stephen Frears, the team that made My Beautiful Laundrette...
...ambitious new films, both telling tales of the end of empire, are as different as their titles: Cry Freedom and Sammy & Rosie Get Laid. The first is Director Richard Attenborough's stately, schizophrenic epic of South Africa a decade ago as blacks groped toward liberation. Sammy & Rosie is Screenwriter Hanif Kureishi's double vision of London as the hip place to be and the last place on postimperial earth. For 2 hr. 35 min., Cry Freedom meanders through a meadow of noble sentiments, finding its only drama in the education of a white liberal South African and his escape from...
Revolt in South Africa: Richard Attenborough' s Cry Freedom. -- Anarchy in South London: Hanif Kureishi' s Sammy & Rosie Get Laid...
...Beautiful Laundrette, his film debut, playwright Hanif Kureishi uses a sharp ironic scalpel to cut through the bleakness of the nasty South London setting. He gives us humour and a solid plot along with a sturdy and valuable lesson. A quick and scantily budgeted effort, Laudrette grapples with several major conflicts: between immigrants and natives, different generations and sexes, and even pairs of brothers...