| HAH!! I'll respond to my own note!!....we saw "Beautiful Girls" last
Friday and loved it.
The main characters are 4 men in their early 30's who don't want
to grow up and their cavalier attitudes about women. Terrific performances
by the entire cast (only 3 I can name right now are Rosie Odomnell(sp?),Tim
Hutton, and Matt Dillon).
The movie is kind of a guys movie in that it follows 4 friends lives,
for a few days, living in a small town in the 60's. It provides a
glimpse into what they are looking for in their lives and
relationships...lots of humor, some 4 "letterers" but overall I'd even
call it a lovely movie. (some lessons learned, some values changed; that
sort of thing)
I think the more past 30 you are, the more you'll enjoy the movie. A
friends daughter in her late 20's didn't appreciate it as much because
she hasn't entirely lived thru that period in her life.
That's all from me for now!
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Also could be subtitled, "You Can Take The Boy Out Of The High
School, But..."
Possible spoiler...
Good flick, and good performances all around, especially by Lauren
Holley and Matt Dillon, whose affair makes you feel cheap just
watching it. The wintry New England scenery is beautiful, Uma Thurman
is radiant, and Rosie O'Donnell is actually _funny_, which is a
first -- for me, anyway. Three stars (out of four).
Bill
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| I most definitly agree with the previous replies, this is
a good movie. A few corrections though to .1, the characters
(at least the one going to their 10th high school reunion)
are in their mid/late 20's, not 30-something. Also I got
the impression that this was not set in the 1960's (based
on the automobiles it's at least 80's or 90's, and the
issue of Penthouse Rosie's character flips through open
to the camera).
The actors that got front of the video box billing are:
Matt Dillan, Lauren Holly, Timothy Hutton, Rosie O'Donnell,
Natalie Portman, Michael Rapaport, Mira Sorvino, and Uma Thurman.
As a previous reply said, this movie is really about the
male characters in this film. Sadly that resulted in
the women, especially my favorite, Mira Sorvino, not getting
much screen time (who looks pretty good in her underwear,
or anything for that matter).
Also regarding the previous comments about the good performance
by the young actress who played the next door neighbor Marty
(named after a Grandfather she never knew), I remember Siskel &
Ebert when they reviewed this film when it first came out, also
praised her performance. It was kind of a strange relationship
there for a bit between her character and Tim Hutton's character,
maybe some Woody Allen influence there ....
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