Rating: 
Summary: Not much to look at, but one stellar performance.
Review: Have you ever watched a movie and felt embarrassed for an actor- understanding how they must have felt having to speak a line or do something in the movie? Well, that's how I felt for everyone involved with that stupid "Sweet Caroline" number. Sure, they all looked like they were having fun, but you know a lot of those guys were cringing on the inside, thinking "I can't believe I'm singing a Neil Diamond song in public."Beautiful Girls was an incredibly difficult movie for me to like because of moments like this. I was left wondering why so many good actors were attracted to this tedious story of how guys are mental midgets who can't see the soulfully beautiful women in their midsts. The actors do the best they can, but they are basically left with nothing to do. If this is what it's like to live in a blue collar tiny town, then I pray my right hand falls off before I ever have to go. Yet there is one redeeming thing in this movie that would make me move to town in a heartbeat, and that's Marty. This is the first movie I ever saw Natalie Portman in and I am awestruck everytime I see her performance. Marty is the kind of girl you have a crush on if she's your babysitter, and the kind of girl that people can't believe comes from a small setting like that. Like Willie, I was jealous of the 12 yr old kid just because "he gets to be her age, right now." Marty's understated beauty, her innocent yet worldly understanding of adult situations, and her childlike shrugs yet assured body language stole the show from the more "mature" actors on set. The way she looked at Willie when she told him to wait for her made me want to scream "Take her up on her offer, ya bonehead!" The friendship that Willie and Marty establish has to be one of the most bittersweet coulda-beens in the movies today. On the whole I do not recommend this movie, but it is worth seeing based on her performance alone. Watch it, but speed through any scene that doesn't have Marty in it. Alright, you might want to check out the scene where Rosy O'Donnell lectures the boys about how the girls in magazines are a fiction and the scene where they almost beat up Darian's husband is pretty cool, but that's pretty much it.
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Summary: Could have been a lot better
Review: Don't you hate it when a drama is labeled as a comedy? Anyway, there were only three things this movie had going for it; the script, the theme (What is considered to be a beautiful woman? ), and Micheal Rappaport's very juvenile character as the only comic relief in this bore *sorry Rosie*. "Beautiful Girls" had the potential to be a nice male soap opera, but it couldn't hold my attention. I considered the part where Matt Dillion's character landed in the hospital the ending and just turned the VCR off. I'm sure that I didn't miss anything beyond that part.
Rating: 
Summary: A Great, Great, Great Movie AN ABSOLUTE MUST SEE MOVIE!
Review: If you haven't seen this movie buy it. This definitely ranks as one of my all time favorite movies. You will watch it over and over again. Everything about this movie is superb. The scenary, the actors and the soundtrack. The Characters and their experiences are situations we can all relate to. I only wish the movie was longer.
Rating:
Summary: MAGNIFICENT!
Review: This has to be one of the best movies I have ever seen. Relationships, growing up, life, it has everything in it. The brilliant script is supported by great actors like Timothy Hutton, Rosy O Donnel, Matt Dillon, Mira Sorvino and ofcourse the lovely Natalie Portman, now i know what Nabakov was talking about.. A must see!
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Summary: One of the most underrated films of the 90's
Review: Movie after movie is released, filled with upper class people living well with no visible means of support in some American city. But most of us grew up in some other place - villages, towns, suburbs. Some of us left, many of us stayed; where we wrestle with relationships, sex, identity, friendship, livelihood, family. Want to see a movie filled with wonderful young actors, with memorable performance after memorable performance as their characters graple with their lives in a small town in New England. Portman's performance has been characterized as one of the revelatory performances of the decade. Great sound track. Buy it and enjoy it again and again
Rating:
Summary: What's there to like?
Review: This should have been a TV-movie. There are too many characters that get little screen time. The story goes way too fast and the editing is very awkward. And another thing. What is so special about Natalie Portman's performance in this film? Her acting was average and any competent teenage actress can do what she did in that film. Big deal. Maybe I just don't see it.
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Summary: I thought the characters were well defined
Review: The character played by Timothy Hutton was ambivalent about having a grownup relationship and was more at ease taslking to a precocious adolescent. The women in the movie came across as having to deal with men in their twenties who hadn't quite matured. It's a funny and a very perceptive movie. There was a lot in it I could relate to in my observations of everyday life. It was a real moovie. I loved it.
Rating:
Summary: Great, great, great, great movie. Awesome. Exceptional.
Review: So good. I am glad I saw this movie in my early 20's, so I know what to expect regarding relationships when I'm a little older. This movie just kicks so much ass. Natalie Portman plays THE PERFECT GIRL. Yes, she's 13 in the movie, but with the mind of someone much older and much more experienced. She is so awesome in this film, I totally relate to Timothy Hutton's character developing a non-sexual crush on her. I wish all girls were like that. This movie rules. Buy it. You'll love it. You will. -Skip Frederiksen
Rating:
Summary: Great, great, great, great movie. Awesome. Exceptional.
Review: So good. I am glad I saw this movie in my early 20's, so I know what to expect regarding relationships when I'm a little older. Natalie Portman plays THE PERFECT GIRL. Yes, she's 13 in the movie, but with the mind of someone much older and much more experienced. She is so awesome in this film, I totally relate to Timothy Hutton's character developing a non-sexual crush on her. I wish all girls were like that. This movie rules. Buy it. You'll love it. You will. -Skip Frederiksen
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Summary: grab a blanket...
Review: Not a "chick movie": If you admire the bittersweet qualities which make a woman "beautiful" in a million ways, than you will appreciate this movie. But also, this movie is for anyone with a nostalgic bone in their body. Great dialogue, and realistic characters will only make you reflect on the course your life has, will, and sometimes might have taken. Natalie Portman steals the show, and she only around 12 years old! Only good things to come...
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