Beautiful Something

2015

1 hr. 32 min.

Drama

Romance

LGBTQ+

List

50%

8 Reviews

Tomatometer

46%

50+ Ratings

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Four gay men experience art, sex and love during one night.

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Deontae D

Not good, Boring, I didn't enjoyed it at all

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/09/23

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Audience Member

Amazing, touching and personal. A brutally honest look into the souls and lives of men. I think that if you cannot relate/connect to any of the characters in the film then it will not affect you, but not every film can affect you in the same profound way.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/17/23

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Audience Member

Graham must be focused on the character's feelings . It's not garbage full of cliches, like most gay themed movies, this one's has its own idea. Graham really digs into 'their' deepest thought and makes the audience feel what each one of them feels. Well, even though the sex scenes are quite unnecessary to me.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/11/23

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Audience Member

A thoughtful and heartfelt story

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

02/05/23

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mike m

Meh. Most of the characters were not only uninteresting but pathetic. And if your using the fact its based in Philly to sell it than use it.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

Good performances from a well cast ensemble elevate this from your average gay indie drama but the dreamy and at times steamy script cannot avoid the tendencies for films of this ilk to go a bit tangential and sometimes naval-gazingly abstract. Moreover, the neat and happy ending seems more fairytale idealism than reality. This is a nicely shot and assembled film about lonely people looking for love and connections but instead end up wallowing in the emptiness of sex. Potentially it has some good ideas but somehow it ends up being just another pretty picture with a pretty cast.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/27/23

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Joseph Graham

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Colman Domingo

Drew

Peter Patrikios

Dom

Matthew Rios

Sergio

Brian Sheppard

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Lauren LoGiudice

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Gary Goldstein

Los Angeles Times

Bits and pieces of the gay-themed drama "Beautiful Something" feel real and essential. But this slow-going film often suffers from a forced, navel-gazing quality that can prove exasperating.

May 5, 2016

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Stephen Holden

New York Times

The movie is in dire need of character development and a wider social context.

May 5, 2016

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Serena Donadoni

Village Voice

A compassionate romantic drama.

May 4, 2016

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Ben Turner

The Pink Lens

Whether or not a better actor would have improved Beautiful Something is another question, but the hurdle it falls at is what is intended to be its biggest draw.

Rated: 2/5

Sep 2, 2021

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Alexander Ryll

Gay Essential

Beautiful Something is a film about connection, how we go about it and how we sometimes miss out on it for any number of reasons.

Rated: 5/5

Sep 15, 2019

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Armond White

Out Magazine

This film, about six Philadelphia men whose lives criss-cross overnight, works like poetry. It is a figuring-out of various desires through movie codes and poetic form.

Mar 3, 2017

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Synopsis

Four gay men experience art, sex and love during one night.

Director: Joseph Graham
Executive Producer: Kelly Burkhardt, Grey Sample
Screenwriter: Joseph Graham
Production Co: Reel Goode Productions, Sun House Films, AltarBoy Productions
Genre: Drama, Romance, LGBTQ+
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 17, 2016

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