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Beautiful People
Generally favorable reviews
Based on 23 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 3 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy
Written by: Jasmine Dizdar
Directed by: Jasmine Dizdar
Release Date:
Theatrical: February 18, 2000
DVD: June 27, 2000
Running Time: 107 minutes, Color
Origin: UK
Summary
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.
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What The Critics Said
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.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Amy Taubin
It seems like a more witty, wise, and succinct "Magnolia."
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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
Read Full Review >Dallas Observer Gregory Weinkauf
Deftly delivered and free of gratuitous gloss, yet enormously rich in its unassuming manner.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Desson Thomson
The movie's devil-may-care freneticism is edgily amusing, almost liberating.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector
Dizdar inventively examines bigotry, combining daring humor and hyperbole, dark realism and shining idealism.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
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.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
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.
