My Beautiful Laundrette - still holds up though some aspects feel dated

Stephen Frears's 1985 movie, My Beautiful Laundrette, holds up quite well after 30 years and, sadly, still seems somewhat contemporary: A young man in London of Pakistani descent, living pretty much as a caretaker for his invalid, alcoholic, highly education father, gets taken in by his wealthy uncle - who runs a suite of parking garages and the eponymous laundrettes (there's money in muck, he says) and possibly some less savory enterprises and gets his uncle's blessing to modernize one of the rundown laundrettes. The young man, Omar, takes in as a partner a tough native Brit he's known since youth (Johnny, played by the young Daniel Day Lewis) - and the 2 develop a love relationship. Meanwhile, Johnny's friends, a group of white nativist thugs, target the Omar and his beautiful laundrette. Omar's homosexuality remains a dark secret, all the more awkward as his uncle tries to set him up to marry a cousin. Some of the great strengths of the film are the terrific evocations of urban squalor and some fine passages of dialog by the now well-known author Hanif Kureishi. In contrast, the group of thugs seem pretty tame and inept by today's standard, not do we get a sense that they're part of any larger and more threatening movement, and the homosexual subplot seems almost archaic, though probably groundbreaking in its time and setting.