Lauren Holly, Martha Plimpton, Matt Dillon
A piano player at a crossroads in his life returns home to his friends and their own problems with life and love.
DVD Release Date: April 3, 2001
Stats: 916 reviews
"Romeo and Juliet, the dyslexic version". 2.5 stars because, despite that line still being funny, it's the only thing I remember about this movie.
Think of The Deer Hunter. Now remove the war, likeable characters and anything interesting ever happening. What you're left with is Beautiful Girls: a slice-of-life attempt at nostlagic/romantic comedy (or something) wherein, despite everyone being back in town to go to the high ...( read more)
Lots of good actors in it, which I think is what saved it. It did have a story in which almost everyone could relate to in some way or another.
Despite its missed, somewhat silly title, Ted Demme's "Beautiful Girls" offers a natural acting and wonderful dialogue and in this case it seems enough to stay with it for 2 hours. It goes slowly without much purpose, only to present couple of lives at end of their twenties and e...( read more)
Extremely underrated and enjoyable small-town flick. Natalie Portman has an absolutely charming role here, two years after her debut in Léon.
This is the movie that forshadows Natalie Portman's future stardom as an actress!
while this movie is odd, it's addictive, makes some good points, and has great performances.
Trying to think about what I could say about this movie I think the closest thing I tought was basically the same thing as ''welcomehomeroxy'' said: One of those movies you don't remember much - but two or three scenes you can't forget''.
Another rueful comedy about commitment-shy twentysomething men and the women who are too good for them. Scott Rosenberg's script takes a condescending view of its own characters, and his dialogue is often pretentious and literary; some lines are almost literally unspeakable. Fort...( read more)
This is such a great movie! It has a great cast and has everything...humor, drama, etc.
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