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#10,195 All-time worldwide
#125 1985 releases

Movie profile

My Beautiful Laundrette

1985 · 98 min · Working Title Films

Comedy Drama Romance
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $2.5M
Budget $860,000
Gross minus budget $1.6M
ROI 2.85x

Domestic gross

$1.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$1.2M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$220,639

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where My Beautiful Laundrette ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
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All-time worldwide #10,195 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1985 releases #125 Release-year chart position of 184 titles Ranked against movies released in 1985. Studio / company #31 Working Title Films of 35 titles Position inside the mapped Working Title Films movie set. Primary genre #3,940 Comedy of 4,840 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

Comparable titles immediately around this movie by reported worldwide gross.

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Quick answer

How did My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) perform at the box office?

High confidence

My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) earned a reported $2.5M worldwide against a reported $860.0K production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $1.6M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 2.85x. In this database it currently ranks #10,195 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #125 among 1985 releases.

Worldwide gross
$2,451,545
Budget
$860,000
Gross minus budget
$1,591,545
ROI
2.85x
Source: TMDb. Last updated: Jul 13, 2026. View source Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

Story

A young Pakistani Briton manages a rundown laundrette with his lover while dealing with tension in his family, the local Pakistani community, and a persistent mob of skinheads.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Nov 16, 1985
Production
Working Title Films, SAF Productions, Channel Four Films
Countries
GB

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Studio / production companyWorking Title Films Release year chart1985 box office Genre chartComedy Genre chartDrama Genre chartRomance

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1985, My Beautiful Laundrette is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy, Drama, Romance title from Working Title Films. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $2.5M, reported production budget is $860,000, gross-minus-budget is $1.6M, ROI is 2.85x. For comparison, it currently sits #10,195 all-time in the current chart set and #125 among 1985 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

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Data noteGross minus budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and downstream revenue. Domestic, international and opening weekend figures marked as estimated are modelled estimates.