The Beautician and the Beast

Beautician and the Beast (1997)

  • 17% of critics liked it
    (18 reviews)

  • 42% of users liked it
    (28,559 ratings)

Joy Miller (Fran Drescher) is a beautician who teaches an evening course in hairstyling at a Brooklyn community college. When a cigarette dropped on a wig leads to a fire, Joy saves the lab animals kept in the building and achieves 15 minutes of local notoriety. Grushinsky (Ian McNeice), a… More

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PG,
Directed By
Written By
Todd Graff
Genres
Comedy, Romance
In Theaters
Feb 7, 1997 Wide
Paramount Home Video

Critic Reviews

  • Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

    Manages to be sweet and likable, largely because Kwapis directs the actors well and treats the sub-Lubitsch material as if he actually believed in it.

  • Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

    Cheesy, multi-accented culture-clash comedy that's seldom funny

  • Michael Dequina, TheMovieReport.com

    As hokey and banal as a sitcom, with predictable culture-clash gags and fairly flat one-liners.

  • Bruce Bennett, Spectrum (St. George, Utah)

    A charming surprise

  • Scott Weinberg, eFilmCritic.com

    Standard feature-length sitcom material. For Drescher fans only.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Dead A


    The intro was hilarious. Fran Drescher was and still awesome in her own way. Many people might not like her voice but I even enjoy that! I loved <i>The Nanny</i> but couldn't love this in that way. It was okay. Got some funny moments into it but not that hilarious.

  • Dean M


    Good giggle-producing combination of <i>The Sound of Music</i> and every fairy tale cliche pairs a tyrant (Timothy Dalton) with a New Yorker (Fran Drescher), and he doesn't stand a chance. The two are in each other's face so often that romance inevitable blooms.… More

  • jay n


    If you like Fran you'll like this if not stay away.

  • Curtis L


    I repent the day I ever saw this.

  • Sanjaya &


    Watch it in HBO... It was a very funny movie....

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