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Beautiful People

Play trailer Poster for Beautiful People R Released May 18, 1999 1h 47m Comedy Drama War Play Trailer Watchlist
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Soccer fanatic Griffin Midge repeatedly disappoints his parents. Portia Thornton sparks a relationship with a penniless refugee, much to the chagrin of her established political family. Dr. Mouldy manages to give meaning to the lives of a young couple determined to reject their newborn child. And BBC correspondent Jerry Higgins, deeply damaged from one too many war assignments, returns home to his wife and child with a new obsession, amputation.

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Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly Rated: A- Sep 7, 2011 Full Review Lisa Alspector Chicago Reader Inventively examines bigotry, combining daring humor and hyperbole, dark realism and shining idealism. Apr 12, 2010 Full Review Entertainment Weekly Rated: A- Feb 18, 2000 Full Review Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid It's a joyful experience. May 26, 2006 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Rated: 3/5 Aug 4, 2005 Full Review Sarah Chauncey Reel.com Rated: 4/5 Jun 10, 2004 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member Supposedly a dark comedy and an imaginative investigation of xenophobia, but its scattershot editing makes it hard to care about any of the characters. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review Audience Member Boring, though it gets better at the end. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Audience Member Take a sixth form scriptwriter, the Hollyoaks film crew and as many day-time TV stars as you could get for free and you could still make a film ten times better than this load of wannabe socio-political wank. Shot in deep-focus (to hide the fact that it's filmed outside the Asda car park), BP comes over more like an omnibus of a TV soap opera and its sprinkling of well-known faces do nothing to lessen the effect. Its weak, condescending dramas like this that used to get all the UK film funding ten years ago. Thankfully, those days are long gone. Abysmal. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/23/23 Full Review Audience Member Add a review..Stunning debut film by Dizdar is a unique surprise for short-cuts-style-narrative, seen all trough the contradictions of different worlds of Eastern and Western Europe, war and peace, rality and hallucination and cellmates in each individable unit of the society. A warning for death of humanity and rebirth of genocide, it is a must see in our turbulant world today. . Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member at the risk of offending everyone on this page, i hated hated hated this movie. however, i have yet to see a 'social drama' that i have liked. this and other similar films always come off as being formulaic and preachy. i didnt particularly care about the characters or their individual problems and if that makes me an insensitive ass then so be it. that being said, crash is easily one of my least favorite movies of all time Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Writer/director Jasmin Dizdar follows the lives of everyday Londoners who are doing their best to navigate everyday chaos. From Balkan refugees to unexpected pregnancies, from unwanted boyfriends to unwanted legs, these ordinary people find their lives are inexplicably entwined. The outstanding ensemble cast includes Julian Firth, Danny Nussbaum, Charlotte Coleman, Steve Sweeney, Rosalind Ayres and Edward Jewesbury. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/16/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Soccer fanatic Griffin Midge repeatedly disappoints his parents. Portia Thornton sparks a relationship with a penniless refugee, much to the chagrin of her established political family. Dr. Mouldy manages to give meaning to the lives of a young couple determined to reject their newborn child. And BBC correspondent Jerry Higgins, deeply damaged from one too many war assignments, returns home to his wife and child with a new obsession, amputation.
Director
Jasmin Dizdar
Producer
Ben Woolford
Screenwriter
Jasmin Dizdar
Distributor
Trimark Pictures
Production Co
Tall Stories, British Screen, Channel 4 Television Corporation, British Film Institute, Arts Council of England, BSkyB, Merseyside Film Production Fund
Rating
R (Violent Content|Language|Drug Use)
Genre
Comedy, Drama, War
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
May 18, 1999, Original
Release Date (Streaming)
Sep 1, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA)
$261.4K
Runtime
1h 47m
Sound Mix
Dolby Digital, Surround