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Beautiful Girls is always in touch with reality but never drowned in it.
This startlingly uneventful compendium of thick-headed boy-talk and female tolerance squanders a fine cast on incredibly ordinary characters and situations.
It's the women who break the monotony of this dudes-in-flux saga...
In a relationship that skirts bad taste, Hutton and Portman make tender movie magic, giving this big-screen spin on Friends its only moments of true romantic yearning.
The dialogue isn't the only problem with Beautiful Girls. The characters are bad, too.
Portman, a budding knockout, is scene-stealingly good even in an overly showy role.
This film really succeeds with its warm treatment of ordinary hang-ups -- no life-shattering revelations or pain repressed since childhood, just the genuine, everyday trials of life.
Natalie Portman, as a 13-year-old on whom Hutton develops a strangely affecting crush, is a delight.
Demme's conversational film is about the gaping chasm between what men say and what they feel. It may not tell us anything new, but its eloquence is quietly rewarding.
Portman steals all the scenes with Timothy Hutton and lights up the movie in each and every one of her scenes with her beauty, charm and utter exuberance.
Talky '90s romance; kids may be "just not into" it.
Despite the title, Demme's coming of age tale is about guys in their 20s who refuse or are unable to mature, which might explain why the most captivating relationship is between Timothy Hutton and the then 13-year-old Natalie Portman.
Women may be unimpressed, but men will squirm with recognition.
A film about relationships and growing older that's funny and smart.
Not a whole lot goes on, but what does go on is engaging enough to merit a look.
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