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Beautiful Girls

1996

Ted Demme

Timothy Hutton, Uma Thurman, Matt Dillon, Natalie Portman ...

7.1

18,439

Drama. Comedy. Romance A decade after their high school graduation, five life-long buddies attend a reunion and find that their fears of women, marriage, and growing up have not faded. Timothy Hutton and Uma Thurman head an all-star cast in this poignant drama that confronts the men’s struggles to connect with the woman who affect their decisions, dreams, and desires.

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"What's nicest about the film is the way it treasures the good feelings people can have for one another (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Desson Howe The Washington Post	"Wry, touching and fun (...) 'Beautiful Girls' makes enmity between the sexes a provocatively funny affair"	POS
United States	Edward Guthmann SFGATE	"The most impressive performer is Natalie Portman (...) [She] makes you wish the movie had focused on her instead of that dull pack of beer-guzzling layabouts."	NEU
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"The characters are brighter and funnier than verisimilitude should allow, but they still work as welcome, entertaining company"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"What saves director Ted Demme’s comic talkfest from sitcom slickness is a quirky script by Scott Rosenberg and an appealing cast"	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"Director Ted Demme brings no special storytelling pizzazz to the table, and 110 minutes is too long to spend with such uninteresting characters"	NEU
United States	Steve Davis Austin Chronicle	"An amiable movie dedicated to trying to fathom the heart and soul of the modern-day Peter Pan (...) although there are plenty of beautiful girls in this movie, there are none more memorable than Portman"	POS

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