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<BODY bgcolor="#CCCC99"> <font size="4"><br>Dirty Pretty Things</font> <font size="2"> <br>movie review by David Gurevich</font> <font size=3 face="Book Antiqua,Century Schoolbook,Times New Roman"> <p>Stephen Frears burst on the scene in 1985 with <i>My Beautiful Launderette</i>: a dynamic interracial gay love story, complete with an over-the-top performance by an unknown named Daniel Day-Lewis. Frears followed up with <i>Sammy and Rosie Get Laid</i>, which mined basically the same milieu, London's multi-ethnic neighborhoods. It was a moderately enjoyable movie, but a certain blah started setting in, caused -- at least for this viewer -- by Frears' nickel-and-dime '60s attitudes. As in,<i> All whites are straight, all nonwhites are hip</i>. It was clearly time to move on. <p><a href="default-nf.htm">Go to the review</a></font> </body>