Beautiful

Beautiful (2000)

  • 16% of critics liked it
    (64 reviews)

  • 51% of users liked it
    (10,069 ratings)

Academy Award-winning actress Sally Field makes her debut as a director of a theatrical feature with this gently satiric comedy. Mona Hibbard (Minnie Driver) is a woman from a small town in Illinois who never enjoyed much of a rapport with her parents. Looking for approval and validation, Mona began… More

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PG-13, 1 hr. 52 min.
Directed By
Sally Field
Written By
Jon Bernstein
Genres
Drama, Comedy
In Theaters
Sep 29, 2000 Wide
On DVD
Feb 20, 2001
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Critic Reviews

  • Ted Shen, Chicago Reader

    ally Field's direction is pedestrian, though she does manage to get shamelessly winning performances out of Driver and Eisenberg.

  • Emanuel Levy, Variety

    Flat, witless, and sappy (a very bad combo), Sally Field's embarrassing feature directorial debut aims to say something "relevant" about American society's obsession with physical looks at the expense of "inner beauty" and moral integrity.

  • Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly

    Certainly the beauty biz deserves better than the antsy and dispiriting Beautiful.

  • Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

    A movie with so many inconsistencies, improbabilities, unanswered questions and unfinished characters that we have to suspend not only disbelief but also intelligence.

  • James Berardinelli, ReelViews

    Some will argue that this review is cruel, and they may be right -- but so is being losing two hours of one's life to this inexcusably bad tripe.

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  • Leigh R


    One of my favorite movies of all time.

  • Leo L


    Love this movie! A favorite.

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