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Beautiful People
Trimark Pictures


7.6

based on 23 reviews
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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

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

There's a bravura recklessness to Beautiful People that perfectly fits its subject.

Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas

Lives up to its ambitiousness in all its aspects.

Village Voice Amy Taubin

It seems like a more witty, wise, and succinct "Magnolia."

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

Fierce, funny and vividly moving.

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.

Time Richard Schickel

The best movie of this very young millennium.

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.

Mr. Showbiz Kevin Maynard

Though frequently brutal and off-putting, Beautiful People is a must-see.

Portland Oregonian Diana Abu-Jaber

If dissonance is your dish, you'll find Beautiful People tempting indeed.

LA Weekly F. X. Feeney

Dizdar maintains a knife-edged balance in tone throughout the film

Dallas Observer Gregory Weinkauf

Deftly delivered and free of gratuitous gloss, yet enormously rich in its unassuming manner.

Washington Post Desson Thomson

The movie's devil-may-care freneticism is edgily amusing, almost liberating.

Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector

Dizdar inventively examines bigotry, combining daring humor and hyperbole, dark realism and shining idealism.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

When Dizdar hits, he hits big.

Film.com Graham Fuller

More whimsical than gloomy, for all the horrors it alludes to or depicts.

Boston Globe Jay Carr

It's a spirited and essentially optimistic film, but it's also simplistic.

New York Post Jonathan Foreman

Inside Beautiful People, . . . there's a terrific film trying to get out.

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

Equal parts soap drama and ham-fisted morality tale.

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.

The average user rating for this movie is 7.6 (out of 10) based on 3 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

David M. gave it a5:
Has both touching and funny moments, but about halfway through becomes increasingly unsubtle

Gilbert gave it a 9:
A subtle, modest, and breathtaking movie. And, I believe, Charlotte Coleman's last.

[Anonymous] gave it a 9:
It's a beautiful movie that really opens your eyes.

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Beautiful People Trimark Pictures

Beautiful People
Trimark Pictures