Beautiful Girls (1996)

User Rating:

7.1/10   

Director:

Ted Demme

Writer (WGA):

Scott Rosenberg (written by)

Release Date:

9 February 1996 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Comedy | Romance

Tagline:

good times never seemed so good

Plot:

A piano player at a crossroads in his life returns home to his friends and their own problems with life and love.

Plot Keywords:

Girlfriend | Reunion | Town | Pianist | Winter

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Cast

Matt Dillon	...	Tommy 'Birdman' Rowland
Noah Emmerich	...	Michael 'Mo' Morris
Annabeth Gish	...	Tracy Stover
Lauren Holly	...	Darian Smalls
Timothy Hutton	...	Willie Conway
Rosie O'Donnell	...	Gina Barrisano
Max Perlich	...	Kev
Martha Plimpton	...	Jan
Natalie Portman	...	Marty
Michael Rapaport	...	Paul Kirkwood
Mira Sorvino	...	Sharon Cassidy
Uma Thurman	...	Andera
Pruitt Taylor Vince	...	Stanley 'Stinky' Womack
Anne Bobby	...	Sarah Morris
Richard Bright	...	Dick Conway

MPAA:

Rated R for strong language and nude pin-ups.

Runtime:

112 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Germany:12 | Singapore:NC-16 | Canada:A (Ontario) | Australia:M | Finland:K-12 | Netherlands:12 | Norway:15 | Portugal:M/12 | Spain:13 | UK:15 | USA:R (certificate #34304) | Iceland:12

Filming Locations:

Bryant-Lake Bowl - 810 W. Lake Street, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Company:

Miramax Films

Trivia:

In the scene featuring Paul's (Michael Rapaport) fumbled proposal to Jan (Martha Plimpton), she says, "So stupid, Paul!" This is a reference to Plimpton's role 11 years earlier in The Goonies (1985), when she tells Mouth (Corey Feldman) "So stupid, Mouth!" in the cave beneath the Fratelli hideout.

Goofs:

Continuity: Kev's cigar in the opening scene.

Quotes:

Marty: Alas, poor Romeo, we can't do diddly.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in The Dialogue: An Interview with Screenwriter Scott Rosenberg (2006) (V)

Soundtrack:

That's How Strong My Love Is

Nice little movie

Piano player Willie Conway (Timothy Hutton) comes back to his old home town for a class reunion.There he meets his old high school buddies and

becomes interested in the neighbor called Marty (Natalie Portman), who's 13 years old.Beautiful Girls (1996) is a great movie from the late Ted Demme.It has a fantastic cast.Hutton is brilliant and there are also Matt Dillon, Noah Emmerich, Annabeth Gish, Lauren Holly, Rosie O'Donnell, Max Perlich, Uma Thurman, Mira Sorvino, Michael Rapaport, David Arquette and so on who all do great job in the movie.But I think it's Natalie Portman who almost steals the show.Every scene with her is pure gold.She has done a lot even though she's still young.She's been in Star Wars prequels, in Leon and I heard there might a sequel coming to that movie.So we will hear from her.The characters in this movie are really unique.They are people you care about.The dialog is wonderful and everything just works in this drama.Beautiful Girls is a movie for everybody who likes a good movie.