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Summary: a REAL good movie
Review: This movie is one of those true gems that no one I know had seen before suggesting it to. Do yourself and relations a favor, go buy or rent this movie soon.The cast is the best ensemble cast I have ever seen. Each and every character works in the movie, there are no awkward or misplaced actors here, from beginning to end. With the likes of Tim Hutton, Matt Dillon, Uma Thurman, Natalie Portman, Mira Sorvino, Noah Emmerich et al. all sharing the spotlight equally- make this the kind of movie you will enjoy wathching over and over. It's 10 year high school reunion time in 'the ridge', a small, working class town that seems to keep most of its graduates in close proximity, except for Willie (Timothy Hutton) who ventured off to the big city as a musician after school. His character plays a wonderful guide through the whole movie, undoubtedly the one that most viewers would best relate to. We are taken by many of life's obstacles in this picture, albeit fairly small ones, but they are so much easier to see and understand than the large ones. That is where I find most of the joy in this movie, in its confronting and questioning the challenges of adult life.
Beautiful Girls is a 'smart' movie, but not so much that it becomes a burden to watch. It makes you feel really comfortable really fast and immediately turns you into that unseen character that we all play while watching a movie. After the acting, the hilarious script will keep you thinking about it long after viewing it. It also has an INCREDIBLE SOUNDTRACK that you cannot miss that features some great indie and classic rock. If your mood tells you to see a movie that is fun, talks to your soul, makes you sit back, relax and enjoy without any overt action or violence.....(well, almost none) then grab it and go! My 4 out of 5 rating relates to the DVD, which includes NO special features or extras...too bad. A great choice for older teenagers to the most mature! They should even enjoy watching it together.
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Summary: Middle-class life in suburban
Review: Scott Rosenberg(screenplay writer of the movie) accomplishes something really amazing in this movie. You wont find heroes or heroines. You wont find an amazing story or spectacular scenary in this movie. You will actually find yourself. At least, I found myself. I found myself laughing, not because the jokes played in the movie and the characters are funny (although they really are). I found myself laughing at myself, because I see myself in the very same situations and quandaries that the characters go through. this movie very frankly describes middle class suburban life. I bet millions of people in the states live more or less the same life portrayed in the movie. What makes this movie great is not so much for its surprises, entertainments, or comedic elements. the thing that makes this movie really a great movie is the realism of the portrayal. What makes me really like this movie is the fact that this movie makes me feel comfortable, as if I am back at home.
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Summary: It only looks like a chic flic
Review: This is a movie that I truely believe is for guys not girls. It probably never went anywhere because it looks like a chic flic. In fact though it is all about problems guys have. Once you watch this movie you will see one or more situations that we have all been in. Give this movie a shot, you might actually learn something about yourself. And then when you are done being sappy watch Rocky, because ine the end we still want to beat the crap out of people even if we know it is wrong.
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Summary: I think every small town has this cast of characters
Review: The premise is simple enough: a man returns home to go to his ten year high school reunion only to be confronted with the choices he and his high school friends have made. In "catching up" with his once tightly-knit group of friends, he takes a look at what has brought each of them to the point in there lives they are at. One has chosen the traditional path of a wife, kids and a house, one man still lives in the glory days of his high school football career and cannot commit to a woman who seems to truly love him. Another is struggling to be mature and only understands what love is after he decides to let his go. Then there is the main character. He is both an observer and intimately connected to both the town and the insecurities that the rest of his friends have about their lives. He falls in love with a beautiful girl - Marty (who's name is, she thinks, "the bane of [her] existence") played exquisitely and painfully adolescent by a 13yr old Natalie Portman (Star Wars: Episode 1, The Professional) and he grows in the film to understand that his potential, and hers are the same. All this is brought to the front of everyone's consciousness by a beautiful cousin (Uma Thurman: Pulp Fiction, The Truth About Cat's and Dogs) who is visiting and shakes everyone's reality by just being proud of herself and consistent in her morality. He also comes to understand that it is better to live in the present than in the past, and he makes a choice that we should all remember when laboring over life decisions. This is a very sensitive movie if you look past the mediocre acting of both Matt Dillon and Michael Rappaport. The setting is good (I swear it was set in my town). The script is thorough, if a bit ambitious. The feeling is warm and real, if a bit fairytale with Uma's character as a Fairy God Mother. A good representation of what precedes that fabled mid-life crisis; it reminds us all that Christopher Robin finally did leave the Hundred Acer Wood he called home. He grew up.
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Summary: Beautiful Girls is uplifting!!
Review: For a movie that did not make a splash or even a ripple when it was released ( I stumbled across it on T.V. several months ago)this show has become my favorite all time. Dillon and his group of friends make you remember those times of hanging out worrying about trivial things like where you were going to drink beer that night or if you could make it another month with your girlfriend. Relating to this show is easy and it makes you miss those confusing times that you relate to. One of the best parts of this show to me is when the "gang" is in their neighborhood tavern run by one of their friends, his cousin played by Uma Thurman comes in and catches their attention. All of the guys react and do their best to impress the girl from the big city. Friends being there for each other in different ways makes this a very uplifting show.
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Summary: amazing, brilliant, very under rated
Review: Among my favorite movies of all time, you almost wish you were in the town hanging with these brilliant characters. Preformances by Timothy Hutton, Michael Rappaport (unreal), and Rosie O'Donnel, among their best, while the rest of the star studded cast shines very brightly in their roles. A movie that was not afraid to tackle subjects that may not be politicly correct (Hutton's interest in a 13 year old girl) will ensure that this movie is a landmark release for years to come. 'Beautiful Girls' already has quite a cult following with audiences aged 18 - 35. I can't express enough how much this movie should be apprieciated.
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Summary: This movie is one great flick
Review: I came across this movie at the exact time I attended my 10 year highschool reunion. Timing could not be more perfect. I guess this is why this movie touched me especially because the movie is about a bunch of friends who meet again for there 10 year highschool reunion. Alot of the questions that were asked by Timothy Hutton at the crossroads of his life I have personally asked myself. The plot is about a bunch of highschool friends, with emphpasis on the guys, that reach that infamous crossroad of their life - the late 20 year olds who have to make a decision on whether or not to take a more permenant path in life or continue to chase childhood dreams and past glories. They see some of their friends who have settled down and have raised a family and live in utter bliss and they ask themselves what to do next in their life. One especially touching conversation for me was a conversation between Timothy Hutton and Uma Thurman when they went Ice fishing. Timothy Hutton has for sometime been in a relationship with a woman that he could certainly settle down with. However he meets Natalie Portman and the feeling of new love starts to overcome him. Timothy Hutton and Uma Thurman discuss the issue of settling down with a stable relationship or living life continously experiencing new love. After all, nothing feels like the feeling of new love. A discussion that many of us have asked at one time in our life when we reached that age when we realized that we weren't getting any younger. I dont want to spoil the movie by revealing too much so I suggest that you watch it.
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Summary: Simple
Review: One the best movies I've seen. Its strength lies on the scenes between Portman and Hutton. I have never seen two actors fall into such ideal roles so naturally and fully. Her portrayal of the idealistic girl is so inspiring, she invokes an underlying feeling of loneliness and sadness, perhaps unknowingly, which we can only imagine must accompany a 13 year old who has so far matured that she is making a thoughtful late 20 year old man second guess himself. When Marty and Will speak near the film's conclusion, we see she is in tears as she packs away her sled. The tears are a bit too good however, and it seemed something didn't quite add up; not with Scooter, not even with William. Is such a bright, strong, "old soul", crying because she's having a hard time finding the right guy for her, or because she's realized there's a good chance no one ever will be? It's worth seeing for these scenes alone!
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Summary: a ok movie
Review: It was not as good as I thought it would be. And it really did not have any romance in it it was pretty much just guy talk and for me being a girl it got boring.
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Summary: I recommend this movie to everyone I know!
Review: I have watched this movie over and over. It's light enough to where you don't get tired out watching it, but it's so full of everything I look for in a movie! The acting is great, the characters are real, the writing and humor is "superb." I especially loved (like everyone else) the interactions between portman and hutton, because it is realistic and you don't look at them as something disgusting... things like that could happen and they do. Michael Rappaport was hilarious with his obsession with supermodels and St. Bernard named "Elle." ... "they're all sisters, Will.... leave it alone." This is not only a "girl" movie, or a "date" movie, its an everyone movie because its true to life full of guys that can't commit, girls with low self esteem trying to hold onto their men, and guys that just want "something beautiful" and will go to the ends of the earth to get it. One of my faaaaaaaaaaavoritees! see it!
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