Summary of the movie:
"Beautiful Girls," directed by Ted Demme from a screenplay by Scott
Rosenberg, is the comic and poignant story of a group of lifelong
buddies struggling to "connect" with the women who affect their
decisions, dreams and desires. The film stars Matt Dillon, Annabeth
Gish, Lauren Holly, Timothy Hutton, Rosie O'Donnell, Max Perlich,
Martha Plimpton, Natalie Portman, Michael Rapaport, Mira Sorvino, Uma
Thurman, Pruitt Taylor Vince.
A decade after their high school graduation, five lifelong buddies
attend a reunion in their sleepy hometown. Ten years have passed,
they've lost some of their youth and most of their innocence but none
of their fears of women, marriage and growing up. The beautiful women
in their lives, ranging from demanding girlfriends to flirtatious
neighbors to voluptuous pinup supermodels, only add to the
complications.
Natalie plays Marty - the thirteen-year old girl with "an old soul"
who lives next door to Willie.
My personal opinion of the movie:
I didn't really know what to expect when I went to see it, I merely
knew that almost all of my friends had seen it, and they all liked it.
I did too. In fact, I really fell in love with it, and pestered my
friend down at the local laserdisc shop to get me the movie on LD as
fast as possible. He eventually sold me his copy of it... :-)
You're definitely missing something if you don't see this movie,
especially if you're a fan of Natalie's work. And, this is really
Natalie's movie - not even Uma Thurman can keep up with her. See
this movie and discover why!
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Director:
Ted Demme
Producer:
Cary Woods
Executive producers:
Bob Weinstein,
Harvey Weinstein and
Cathy Konrad
Screenplay:
Scott Rosenberg
Principal cast:
Matt Dillon, Noah Emmerich,
Annabeth Gish, Lauren Holly,
Timothy Hutton, Rosie O'Donnell,
Max Perlich, Martha Plimpton,
Natalie Portman, Michael Rapaport,
Mira Sorvino, Uma Thurman and
Pruitt Taylor Vince
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Related links:
Internet Movie Database entry
Official site
Beautiful Girls Fanpage
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Laserdisc information:
Miramax Home Entertainment,
Catalog #: 8014 AS,
Letterbox, 113 minutes,
Dolby Surround, Color,
No extras.
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Teasers / trailers:
"Greenband" (3.3 Mb)
"Conspiracy" (600 kb)
"Need" (1.2 Mb)
"Women" (1.3 Mb)
"Home (Boys)" (1.2 Mb)
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Trivia:
Natalie learned to ice skate during the making of this
movie. She still skates for fun.
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Sound samples:
Dialog samples from the movie are available from the
multimedia archive.
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