Represents a keen, personal look at the difficulties of growing up gay in a heterosexual world.
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01/01/00
Beautiful Thing (1996)
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Reviews Counted:19
Fresh:17
Rotten:2
Average Rating:6.8/10
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: The offbeat, underachieving denizens of a southeast London apartment building get an emotional wake-up call when two of the neighbors--two teen boys--unexpectedly fall in love. Tenderhearted... [More]
Starring: Glen Berry, Tameka Empson, Scott Neal, Linda Henry
Director: Hettie MacDonald
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Reviews for Beautiful Thing
Top CriticDelightful English film which charts the dawning of love between two homosexuals.
08/28/02
The boys' lives contain few surprises ... but from the other characters there is one astonishment after another.
01/01/00
Top CriticThis movie has a sharply observed sense of family and community and astonishingly natural acting.
01/09/02
Beautiful Thing might be the most beloved of all the gay-youth movies released in the late 90s
04/27/03
The performances are mostly quite good, but the script definitely needs work.
01/01/00
If Beautiful Thing were any more sensitive, it would faint.
01/01/00
Top Criticjust as it 'takes a village' to raise a child, the 'village' elevates this otherwise ordinary drama
07/27/03
In portraying romance, the film transcends its homosexual themes, while at the same time celebrating them.
01/01/00
Top CriticBecause the film is so effective for its first two-thirds and because it has its heart in the right place throughout, audiences may be willing to forgive its final third.
02/14/01
Top CriticManages to do what few films have done -- convey coming out with the specificity that draws viewers in while conveying a universality that hits home.
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