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The Beautician and the Beast (1997)

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Average Rating: 4.6/10
Reviews Counted: 18
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Average Rating: 4.7/10
Critic Reviews: 6
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 5

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Movie Info

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 representative of the leader of the small Eastern European nation of Slovetzia, is visiting the United States while looking for a tutor for the leader's three children. Thinking Joy teaches science (apparently

PG, 1 hr. 45 min.

Comedy, Romance

Directed By: Ken Kwapis

Written By: Todd Graff

In Theaters: Feb 7, 1997 Wide

On DVD: Jun 24, 2003

Paramount Home Video

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Critic Reviews for The Beautician and the Beast

All Critics (33) | Top Critics (13) | Fresh (3) | Rotten (15) | DVD (2)

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.

April 7, 2010 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader

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Jonathan Rosenbaum

Chicago Reader

Top Critic

Listening to Fran Drescher's nasal squawk for an entire movie is the price you'll pay to see The Beautician and the Beast. Imagine having your ear canal scoured with Brillo. Only more abrasive.

January 1, 2000 Comment

Susan Wloszczyna

USA Today

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

August 6, 2011 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com

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Emanuel Levy

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

January 13, 2004 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com

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Michael Dequina

TheMovieReport.com

A charming surprise

December 16, 2003 Comment

Bruce Bennett

Spectrum (St. George, Utah)

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

December 21, 2002 Comment

Scott Weinberg

eFilmCritic.com

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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 The Nanny but couldn't love this in that way. It was okay. Got some funny moments into it but not that hilarious.

August 5, 2010

Dead Angel

Super Reviewer

Good giggle-producing combination of The Sound of Music 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. Royal pageantry is a visual bonus.

April 29, 2007