Jun 16, 2022
91 min
Full-HD

American Laundry (2022)

Located in Berwyn, a deprived Chicago suburb, the laundromat run by Tom Benson, reputed to be the largest in the world, is an institution for those residents on a tight budget: an immersion into this microcosm where, despite extreme poverty, everyone still believes in the so-called American dream and strives to fulfill it.

Category

Documentary

Country

France

Companies

Les Films d'Ici Méditerranée ARTE Les Films d'Ici

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