Beautiful (2000)
Average Rating: 3.2/10
Reviews Counted: 64
Fresh: 10 | Rotten: 54
Sally Field's directing debut suffers from an inconsistent tone, implausible script, and a protagonist that critics say is one of the most loathsome to come around in a long time.
Average Rating: 2.9/10
Critic Reviews: 24
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 21
Sally Field's directing debut suffers from an inconsistent tone, implausible script, and a protagonist that critics say is one of the most loathsome to come around in a long time.
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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 entering local beauty pageants in her early teens; now in her early 20's, Mona is still grimly determined to one day walk away a winner as she finds herself in the early innings of the Miss American
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Leslie Stefanson
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Bridgette Wilson
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All Critics (78) | Top Critics (28) | Fresh (10) | Rotten (54) | DVD (6)
ally Field's direction is pedestrian, though she does manage to get shamelessly winning performances out of Driver and Eisenberg.
Top CriticFlat, 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.
A movie with so many inconsistencies, improbabilities, unanswered questions and unfinished characters that we have to suspend not only disbelief but also intelligence.
The tame, confused script eventually sinks the film.
Sally, get it straight: Mona doesn't deserve to be cheered. We don't like her. We really, really don't like her.
Awkward, alternately sour and sappy.
Beautiful is just bad, sadly. Where's the plot?
An uneasy mix of broad satire, soap opera outlandishness, and movie-of-the-week sappiness.
It's treacly, plastic and shamelessly obvious, and yet, on a low-rent level, it somehow works.
...one of that growing genre of mainstream Hollywood shots at the main chance -- an unfunny comedy.
Pior do que a direção de Sally Field, só mesmo o caráter desprezível da personagem principal: uma mulher egoísta, fútil e irritante. Ao longo do filme, eu não queria apenas que ela perdesse o concurso; queria que ela sofresse.
When a person is suffering deeply, Field cues you in to what they're thinking by having voices from the past echoing all around them, a technique that's more often used in cautionary drivers' ed documentaries...
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