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Andie MacDowell, John Malkovich, Joss Ackland

The director Michael Lindsay-Hogg has a name that sounds British despite the fact that he is a New Yorker by birth. Maybe that association derives from the fact that he's primarily helmed television f...( read more  read more... )ilms--segments of Brideshead Revisited, for example, as well as a pile of music videos for English bands like the Who and the Rolling Stones. One of his few ventures into feature filmmaking (another was the little-seen Frankie Starlight) is the 1990 film The Object of Beauty, which also looks, sounds, and feels British in sensibility. The film is set in a tony London hotel, the weather is England-dreary, and the clothes (when the actors are wearing them) are tweedish and woolly in appearance. And the story is essentially repressed and internal save for the brash American performances of John Malkovich and Andie MacDowell, who play a couple living way above their limited financial means. When Jake (Malkovich) bottoms out in a business deal, he urges Tina (MacDowell) to sell her little Henry Moore sculpture, an object of great beauty. Such beauty, in fact, that a young mute hotel maid decides to steal it for her own. The actress Rudi Davies, who plays the maid, steals more than the Moore, however. She sneaks the film out from under Malkovich and MacDowell, who was just coming off of her sex, lies, and videotape acclaim, and who is quite good here as well. The Object of Beauty is too subtle in its message--Jake and Tina lose their last monetary chance and in penury begin to discover who they are as people--to let us care about such a pouty pair, and the "hilarious mix-ups and mayhem" that the film promises are, in actuality, tame and trite. --Paula Nechak

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R, 103 min.

Directed by: Michael Lindsay-Hogg

Release Date: April 12, 1991

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DVD Release Date: June 29, 1999

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  • threefolddado
    June 25, 2008
    threefolddado
    Wasted a great cast.
  • aswinwilliam
    July 9, 2009
    aswinwilliam
    It was a good film but theres not much story in it. Very average i mean it just shows a group of people caught up with one expensive object stolen, simple to understand. I think it coveys the message that being rich is not easy as it seems. There some moments where it tried to be...( read more) funny but no.
  • MECreviews
    March 24, 2008
    MECreviews
    This movie had potential, but fell through the cracks. To bad.
  • deano
    August 20, 2007
    deano
    This sporadically amusing comedy is made rather irritating by the way in which the actors clearly think they're being very funny.

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