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5.3 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 8 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 8
  3. Negative: 4 out of 8

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  1. GlynnH
    Jul 8, 2005
    10
    I thought this was a great movie. I found it to be very touching as well as very funny. It had me in tears from laughter and from the emotion. Minnie Driver won me over with this movie. I rewatch it at least once a month and my love for it never waivers. It is, if you will forgive me, a "Beautiful" movie.
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  2. BobH.
    Apr 2, 2006
    1
    Minnie Driver as a Miss America contestant? Be serious...maybe as a dog show contestant.
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  3. KylieA.
    Jul 30, 2002
    9
    I thought it had great music, and a funny plot. The rest of you who panned it are middle aged single people with no lives.
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  4. MarceloC.
    Feb 18, 2005
    10
    I really liked this movie. You need to be a beauty pageant expert to understand the story. There are many women in the world who would actually do those things and more to become beauty queens. I personally love this movie.
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  5. MichelleB.
    Apr 14, 2003
    9
    I love this movie ,all these people who don't like it don't understand it shes a round character and she changed people change over small events whether you believe it or not(im commenting on one person who said that she changed quickly)
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  6. TheEveOfGilbertMulroneycakes
    Jul 16, 2003
    3
    Miss Sally Field deserved a better script for her directorial debut. Good cast and all that, but the script is just...someone should have poured acid on the script and made a completely different movie. Or better still, gone and done something else instead. Like punching Jon Bernstein.
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Metascore

Generally unfavorable - based on 28 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 28
  2. Negative: 19 out of 28
  1. 30
    Sally Field's direction is pedestrian, though she does manage to get winning performances out of Driver and Eisenberg.
  2. Reviewed by: Mike Clark
    38
    Burdened with so many poky scenes that it approaches the level of the distributor's "Drowning Mona" and "Whipped," both candidates for the year's worst.
  3. Reviewed by: Robert Horton
    40
    Beautiful is a mess, but not without interest.