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Beautiful People
Trimark Pictures
MPAA RATING: R for drug use, language and some violent content
Starring
Charlotte Coleman,
Charles Kay,
and
Rosalind Ayres
Set in October 1993 in London, this film tells the story of four families and their encounters with refugees from the former Yugoslavia.
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Jasmine Dizdar
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Jasmine Dizdar
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: June 27, 2000
Video: June 27, 2000
Theatrical: February 18, 2000
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
107 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
UK |

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91
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
There's a bravura recklessness to Beautiful People that perfectly fits its subject.

90
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Lives up to its ambitiousness in all its aspects.

90
Village Voice
Amy Taubin
It seems like a more witty, wise, and succinct "Magnolia."

90
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Fierce, funny and vividly moving.
90
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
Is, in the end, a boisterous love song -- a funny valentine to London, to chaos and to human decency.

90
Time
Richard Schickel
The best movie of this very young millennium.
89
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
It's an audacious, affecting, and unexpectedly hilarious debut, and most definitely the most original film I've seen all year.

88
Mr. Showbiz
Kevin Maynard
Though frequently brutal and off-putting, Beautiful People is a must-see.
83
Portland Oregonian
Diana Abu-Jaber
If dissonance is your dish, you'll find Beautiful People tempting indeed.
80
LA Weekly
F. X. Feeney
Dizdar maintains a knife-edged balance in tone throughout the film

80
Dallas Observer
Gregory Weinkauf
Deftly delivered and free of gratuitous gloss, yet enormously rich in its unassuming manner.

80
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
The movie's devil-may-care freneticism is edgily amusing, almost liberating.

80
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
Dizdar inventively examines bigotry, combining daring humor and hyperbole, dark realism and shining idealism.

75
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
Behind the inspired wackiness is a story about how our warlike nature needs some changing before we can all live in relative harmony.

75
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
Often grim, but never nihilistic: Even at its darkest, Dizdar gives the movie an optimistic bounce. The movie is often shockingly funny, too.
75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
It is fairly lighthearted, under the circumstances; like "Catch-22," it enjoys the paradoxes that occur when you try to apply logic to war.

75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Paula Nechak
Dizdar humorously compares and contrasts extremes in economics and lifestyles and looks at the west through the eyes of an outsider.

75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
When Dizdar hits, he hits big.
70
Film.com
Graham Fuller
More whimsical than gloomy, for all the horrors it alludes to or depicts.

63
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
It's a spirited and essentially optimistic film, but it's also simplistic.
63
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
Inside Beautiful People, . . . there's a terrific film trying to get out.
50
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Equal parts soap drama and ham-fisted morality tale.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Bob Graham
For a bighearted effort like this one, some patience on the audience's part is not too much to ask. Go ahead. Take a chance.


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