A Beautiful Life

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A Beautiful Life

2008

1h 21m

Drama

Romance

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A teenage runaway (Angela Sarafyan) falls in love with an illegal immigrant (Jesse Garcia) who works in a Los Angeles strip club.

Mark Jenkins

NPR

[Lau] successfully balances satire and sentimentality in the first half, but loses his bearings in the sappier second part.

May 20, 2011

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Gary Goldstein

Los Angeles Times

Whatever does work here - mainly a soulful performance by Liu Ye - ultimately gets lost in the excess.

Rated: 2.5/5

May 19, 2011

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Jeff Shannon

Seattle Times

The film strains credulity by pushing its characters wildly to and fro with a shamelessly sentimental screenplay.

Rated: 2.5/4

May 19, 2011

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Michael C. Walsh

Boston Phoenix

Unfortunately, Lau throws in one too many wrinkles, squandering our empathy by forcing us through a long-winded relationship involving betrayal and illness.

Rated: 1.5/4

May 19, 2011

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Avi Offer

NYC Movie Guru

An amateurish, contrived drama that's neither captivating, insightful nor engrossing.

Rated: 3.5/10

Oct 5, 2009

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Don Willmott

Filmcritic.com

There's simply not enough for Maggie and David to do to sustain an entire movie.

Rated: 2/5

Oct 1, 2009

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Bahad j

I felt like the characters in this movie could feel the happiness and difficulties that they faced in real life.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

07/06/24

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Audience Member

[Lau] successfully balances satire and sentimentality in the first half, but loses his bearings in the sappier second part.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/21/23

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Frances H

Not really interesting due to rather bad acting and script.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

05/09/13

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Audience Member

something which failed to create excitement due to lame acting..

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/06/23

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Audience Member

This movie was a bit difficult to follow. There were a lot of characters that had rambling stories that were hard to figure out. The ending was a little disturbing, but things were on the right track for a happily-ever-after ending.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/13/23

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Audience Member

This was a huge waste of time! Acting was VERY bad, especially Angela Sarafayan!! Everything about this movie was amateurish. Don't know who outfitted Ling, but that was a disaster. Whoever put this out, gather all copies and BURN THEM!

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

01/26/23

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Alejandro Chomski

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Jesse Garcia

David

Angela Sarafyan

Maggie

Debi Mazar

Susan

Bai Ling

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Synopsis

A teenage runaway (Angela Sarafyan) falls in love with an illegal immigrant (Jesse Garcia) who works in a Los Angeles strip club.

Director: Alejandro Chomski
Producer: Nesim Hason, Deborah Calla
Screenwriter: Wendy Hammond, Deborah Calla
Genre: Drama, Romance
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): May 17, 2019
Runtime: 1h 21m

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