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Beautiful (2000)
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Reviews Counted: 59
Fresh: 9
Rotten:50
Average Rating: 3.1/10
Consensus: 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.
Runtime: 1 hr 52 mins
Genre: Comedies
Box Office: $2,385,588
Synopsis: Mona (Colleen Rennison) is a 12-year-old who wants to be a beauty queen. And that's all she wants. She earns the money to fix her teeth and pay for pageant classes. She finds a friend, Ruby (Jacqueline Steiger), who can make costumes. Mona... [More]
Starring: Minnie Driver, Colleen Rennison, Hallie Kate Eisenberg, Joey Lauren Adams
Director: Sally Field
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Reviews for Beautiful
Top Critic
It's treacly, plastic and shamelessly obvious, and yet, on a low-rent level, it somehow works.
12/11/06
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.
09/12/06
Top Critic ...one of that growing genre of mainstream Hollywood shots at the main chance -- an unfunny comedy.
01/02/05
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.
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06/18/02
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...
06/10/02
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04/16/01
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01/01/00
Top Critic Even a couple of sharp pokes at pageant conventions can't keep the clumsy story from stumbling when on the catwalk.
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Top Critic Falls short of its promise by failing to get below the surface of any of the issues it introduces.
01/01/00
What could have been light and sweet is bogged down by layer upon layer of schmaltz and sentiment, not to mention a rather ugly (on the inside) main character.
01/01/00
[Driver] gives a technically impressive and effectively scary performance. But then, so does the Terminator.
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