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Yar, you be here: Beautiful Girls > Customer Reviews Beautiful Girls Customer Reviews (16 - 18 of 30 Reviews)Dumb Guys but Sweet
Ted Demme has offered us a sweet reunion of small town, New Englander, twenty-somethings. There is some Big Chill here 1990's style, but for the most part, the guys that stayed home and married or almost married are blue-collar, beer drinking, and chick panting types. High school big man, Matt Dillon is still respected for his womanizing skills. Tim Hutton has a girl back in New York City, but his musical career is getting old and his thirteen-year-old neighbor girl attracts. The relationship between a young man and an adolescent could have been really creepy, but there's some deft writing and directing, so we enjoy this impossibility for a few hours. Uma Thurman vamps as the perfect chick. Each of the single guys gives her a rush, but she's just out of reach as any apparition. My wife really liked this one. Maybe there's more appeal to chicks in this flick because Rosie O'Donnell in a minor part sure makes a mockery of men and their desires. Natalie Portman's coming out party!
I remember renting this movie a few years ago just basically because there wasn't anything else that looked to interesting and for some reason this just kind of jumped out of me. I'm glad it did because this is one of my favorite movies of all-time. The writing is very clever, very natural sounding and the acting is great to serviceable. Timothy Hutton does a great job as the lead character who's returned home for a reunion, but also seeking an answer as to what the next step in his life should be. But, without question, Natalie Portman put Hollywood on notice in this moive that she was going to be a huge star. There aren't many young ladies who could've stolen a scene or two much less a whole movie of this caliber. She takes what could've very easily been a throw away part without a lot of substance and turns it into something that makes you realize you're seeing a truly special actress. The scenes with Hutton and her are adorable, real, and heartbreaking all at the same time. Their conversation about Winnie the Pooh while she ice skates is some of the best writing in the film. Definitely check this movie out if you're a Natalie Portman fan, a Timothy Hutton fan, or if you just want to see a small movie that places an importance on dialogue and character development over massive explosions. I'll be her Pooh
Beautiful Girls has now made my list of top ten movies. This movie gives us a glimpse into the lives of people that we all know and relate to. The best romantic comedy I've seen in years, Michael Rappaport was excellent and a bright spot in an all-star cast. But it is Natalie Portman's performance that swept me off my feet. An extremely intelligent and convincing actress, "Precocious" Portman, carries the movie with her near-romance with Timothy Hutton. Please tell me that every guy was not envious of Hutton during the scene when Natalie was ice skating on the frozen pond. Your heart cries out for her in the dyslexic Romeo & Juliet episode. Her wit and charm is unrivaled beyond her years. Well worth the five year wait.... Natalie is THE Beautiful Girl.
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