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Summary: what a beautiful thing
Review: I first found this film in local library and fell in love with it. It is a simple and honest love story, I laughed and I cried all the way through it, I have also performed in the play as the main character Jamie.
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Summary: 5 times in 4 days
Review: I received this video for Christmas and have fallen for it deeply. I've watched 'Beautiful Thing' every day -- I can't get enough of it. The story is honest, down-to-earth and very, very funny. Jamie and Ste will steal your heart!
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Summary: 5 times in 4 days
Review: I received this video for Christmas and have fallen for it deeply. I've watched 'Beautiful Thing' every day -- I can't get enough of it. The story is honest, down-to-earth and very, very funny. Jamie and Ste will steal your heart!
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Summary: a special book
Review: I recommend this book to everyone. The story of Beautiful thing is a great story about a different adolescence which is an unseparated part of our lives in today's society. the story is not too fiction and it touched my heart graetlly. thanx... Dror G.
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Summary: a special book
Review: I recommend this book to everyone. The story of Beautiful thing is a great story about a different adolescence which is an unseparated part of our lives in today's society. the story is not too fiction and it touched my heart graetlly. thanx... Dror G.
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Summary: both movie and book were outstanding
Review: i saw the movie before i read the book if i remember correctly (it was a long time ago for both). i loved the movie. the characters were so realistic and the way that jamie connected with his mother was not buttered up, it was the way it is with most mothers and their kids at that age. this isnt a page about the movie though, this is about the book.
when i first got this book i ordered it from a local store and waited a month for it to come in. when i got it i was handed this leafy little book with a black and white cover with a man jumping in the air on it. the guy at the counter looked at me and said "thatll be ". i look at him like hes insane because of that. EXPLANATION OF THE SIZE
this is a play. the book concentrates on what is done and said, not in the way that someone leans over to get the morning paper. they dont waiste time. this book if performed would not be tiny, it would be a normal size play. okay so i get in the car with the book and im all mad cause the price i thought insane for the book and my mom said "then take it back in there cause im not coming back" i said "no, i already ordered it, i might as well read it, i want it" and i start reading it in the car and then i get out of the car and walk out and my moms trying to talk to me. i am completly in this book, i dont hear much of anything. lets just put it this way. ive never regreted buying that book and ive read it about 20 times or more. the reason that im here buying a new one is because during a move it was stolen and im here to read it yet again.
read the play, watch the movie and if your in england see the play if its still being shown.
beautiful thing will steal your heart.
reason behind the movies r rating.
okay its a really innocent movie in most parts.
its a love story between 2 boys but its also got another branch off because its the story of the boy "jamie" also connecting with his mother and her boyfriend.
with ste your seeing domestic abuse. ste is a teenage boy in the flat next to theirs thats being beaten by his father and brother.
with ste and leah your also seeing drugs, granted not in a pro kind of way though and its not a big part of the movie. its one scene and a small bit of another.
so in a way i guess the r rating is kind of deserved but there are so many movies that are pg 13 that have so much more than this in them.
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Summary: Truly a Beautiful Thing...
Review: I saw the show in Chicago and it was brilliant! The story is so honest and heart-felt. Harvey did a magnificent job of not turning the show into a cliched "gay" play.
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Summary: Truly a Beautiful Thing...
Review: I saw the show in Chicago and it was brilliant! The story is so honest and heart-felt. Harvey did a magnificent job of not turning the show into a cliched "gay" play.
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Summary: wonderful...what an understatment
Review: I've just ordered this book off of Amazon. I have read some brilliant reveiws on it and I got everythign I hoped for. I cried, I laughed and made a complete fool of myself infront of everyone. I now have all my mates queing to read it. I have never read a book so wonderful and it should be made available everywhere, not just via the internet. It's also very easy for me, as it is set where i am living at the moment so the language is easily understood. I recomend this book to everyone who needs comforitng at any time or for anyone who just likes to smile. I was also hoping to veiw the film, but I cannot get hold of a copy so if anyone reading this review wouldn't mind lending me a copy I would be very grateful....
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Summary: A complex, heart-warming experience not to be missed.
Review: I've read the play, the screenplay, have seen it performed and seen the movie and believe that Beautiful Thing is one of the best stories of our time. It is the story of two young boys from broken homes coming of age while dealing with the complexity of their growing feelings for each other. Some critics may say that Harvey has stereo-typed his characters and that may be true but who, in this day and age, DOESN'T fit into a stereo-type. In a world full of cynicism and repression, Harvey presents us with a story that gives everyone who reads his play or sees it performed a glimpse of hope within the darkness.
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