Beautiful Girls is always in touch with reality but never drowned in it.
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11/27/09
Beautiful Girls (1996)
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Reviews Counted:44
Fresh:35
Rotten:9
Average Rating:7/10
Runtime: 1 hr 53 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: "Beautiful Girls" takes place in a sleepy New England town, the bucolic home of a group of Generation X-ers involved in a number of romantic goings-on. The film takes a close look at the... [More]
Starring: Matt Dillon, Uma Thurman, Timothy Hutton, Mira Sorvino
Director: Ted Demme
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Reviews for Beautiful Girls
Top CriticNatalie Portman, as a 13-year-old on whom Hutton develops a strangely affecting crush, is a delight.
11/27/09
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.
11/27/09
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.
04/29/09
This startlingly uneventful compendium of thick-headed boy-talk and female tolerance squanders a fine cast on incredibly ordinary characters and situations.
03/26/09
Top CriticDespite 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.
04/04/06
Women may be unimpressed, but men will squirm with recognition.
01/26/06
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11/29/05
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09/26/05
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07/29/05
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01/27/05
A film about relationships and growing older that's funny and smart.
09/02/04
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08/04/04
Not a whole lot goes on, but what does go on is engaging enough to merit a look.
01/13/04
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12/05/03
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09/05/03
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08/03/03
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