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  • 2009
  • Not Rated
  • Image Entertainment
  • 1 h 21 m
  • 2009
  • Not Rated
  • Image Entertainment
  • 1 h 21 m

Summary A Beautiful Life tells a heartwrenching love story against all odds about the encounter of two drifting souls and their escape into the harsh corners of life trying to avoid their dark pasts. Escaping her abusive past, Maggie finds a shelter near Esther, a stripper with singing aspirations. After staying the night with Esther’s illegal i...

Directed By: Alejandro Chomski

Written By: Wendy Hammond, Deborah Calla

  • 2009
  • Not Rated
  • Image Entertainment
  • 1 h 21 m
  • 2009
  • Not Rated
  • Image Entertainment
  • 1 h 21 m

A Beautiful Life

Metascore Overwhelming Dislike Based on 7 Critic Reviews
13
User Score Overwhelming Dislike Based on 9 User Ratings
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Summary A Beautiful Life tells a heartwrenching love story against all odds about the encounter of two drifting souls and their escape into the harsh corners of life trying to avoid their dark pasts. Escaping her abusive past, Maggie finds a shelter near Esther, a stripper with singing aspirations. After staying the night with Esther’s illegal i...

Directed By: Alejandro Chomski

Written By: Wendy Hammond, Deborah Calla

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Metascore
Overwhelming Dislike Based on 7 Critic Reviews
13
0% Positive
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14% Mixed
1 Review
86% Negative
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Overwhelming Dislike Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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14% Mixed
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86% Negative
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40
Clichéd and formulaic.
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25
Makes little attempt to be credible or original. And the acting is poor.
By V.A. Musetto FULL REVIEW
25
The bad news is that the characters and situations are platitudes and the story is so heavy-handed that the film is hard to sit through.
By Walter Addiego FULL REVIEW
20
The whole thing plays like a bad Equity-waiver one-act.
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20
Misery pile-up.
By Melissa Anderson FULL REVIEW
10
This laughably clichéd dive into sexual masochism and hardscrabble survival replaces story with outline and characters with place holders.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
10
A waste of a talented, earnest cast, this borderline offensive indie, set for an Oct. 2 limited release, shouldn't take up too much valuable theater space before fading away.
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Overwhelming Dislike Based on 9 User Ratings
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11% Positive
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11% Mixed
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78% Negative
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User Score
Overwhelming Dislike Based on 9 User Ratings
1.7
11% Positive
1 Rating
11% Mixed
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78% Negative
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Production Company Calla Productions, Bob Holof Productions, New Films International
Release Date Oct 2, 2009
Duration 1 h 21 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://www.abeautifullifethemovie.com/
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