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Beautiful Girls (1996)

Drama | 112 minutes
3,21 312 votes

Genre: Drama / Comedy

Duration: 112 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Ted Demme

Stars: Timothy Hutton, Matt Dillon and Natalie Portman

IMDb score: 7,1 (36.101)

Releasedate: 9 February 1996

Beautiful Girls plot

"Good times never seemed so good."

A group of school friends organize a reunion in a dull snowy town. Nothing is more difficult than saying goodbye to your childhood. There are so many beautiful women walking around, you never know if you've got the right one. This phenomenon binds a group of friends from a small American town. They are approaching thirty, but they behave like genuine teenagers.

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blurp194

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Well.

Apparently I've seen it before - the scene with the snowplow had stayed with me. And the rest is happily forgotten. Because otherwise a less striking film, apart from the actors / actresses who would later become famous. Not that the acting is so good in this film - in the first minutes, when drinking the hot chocolate, things already go quite wrong. And overall, the story is quite disappointing. Surely there are countless films in the same atmosphere that have succeeded a lot better - and something like a Singles (1992) is definitely not .

Nathalie Portman does steal the film, actually. And deserved too. The rest mainly shows what we see in all their roles afterwards - Matt Dillon's slightly tired crooked smile, Uma's blinking eyebrow. A prediction that has somehow come true.

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Movsin

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Reunion movies are always "In" and luckily this "Beautiful Girls" isn't as stupid-foolish as a lot of such movies where teenagers have barely grown up and is therefore a bit more substantive.

However, it isn't great either, there are too many clichéd situations and characters for that.

A very young Natalie Portman is very charming and plays a thirteen-year-old who, as always with Americans, is very intelligent and way ahead of her age.

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Roger Thornhill

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"A supermodel is a bottled promise!" I remembered this film mainly because of Michael Rapaport's unexpectedly lyrical outpouring of the value of female beauty. On review, I can see why more hasn't stuck, because other than Willie (Timothy Hutton), the characters don't really get much depth, and while the list of well-known actors and actresses is impossibly large, there aren't many that can hold my attention. You could see Beautiful girls as I vitelloni five years later, and it's nice that so much attention is paid to the ensemble playing of the enthusiastic and (mostly) young cast, but there's really very little that gets off the ground, and the unappealing photography of the unappealing town doesn't do the film any good either. Aside from the role of Hutton, the main bright spot is surprisingly provided by an actress I've never had much with myself, but who I've come to see more and more lately that she does have a lot to offer: Natalie Portman steals effortlessly every scene in which she appears, and her encounters with Hutton are always entertaining and exciting. Oh, and of course Hutton's hilarious use of the snowplow...

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