The Beautician and the Beast (1997)

Director:

Ken Kwapis

Writer (WGA):

Todd Graff (written by)

Release Date:

7 February 1997 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Romance

Tagline:

Once upon a time...

Plot:

A New York cosmetologist mistakenly thought to be a science teacher is offered a job to teach the children of an Eastern European dictator.

Plot Keywords:

Dictator | Teacher | Beautician | Massage | Culture Clash

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Fran Drescher	...	Joy Miller
Timothy Dalton	...	Boris Pochenko
Ian McNeice	...	Ira Grushinsky
Patrick Malahide	...	Leonid Kleist
Lisa Jakub	...	Katrina Pochenko
Michael Lerner	...	Jerry Miller
Phyllis Newman	...	Judy Miller
Heather DeLoach	...	Masha Pochenko
Adam LaVorgna	...	Karl Pochenko
Kyle Wilkerson	...	Yuri Pochenko
Tyler Wilkerson	...	Yuri Pochenko
Timothy Dowling	...	Alek
Michael Immel	...	Stage Manager
Tonya Watts	...	Model
Tamara Mello	...	Consuela
Celeste Russi	...	Lupe
Daniel Escobar	...	Hector
Billy Brown	...	Fireman (as Bill Brown)
Jorge Noa	...	Photographer
Carmela Rappazzo	...	Student
Clyde Wrenn	...	Student
Earl Carroll	...	Factory Worker
Vincent Schiavelli	...	Jailer
Marianne Muellerleile	...	Chef
Sparkle	...	Cousin Doris (as R. Sparkle Stillman)
Ed Cambridge	...	Elderly Man
Todd Graff	...	Denny
Gene Chronopoulos	...	Servant
David Shackelford	...	Kitchen Worker
Michael Horton	...	Fairytale Prince (voice)
Jane Jenkins	...	Neighbor at Party (as J.J. Chaback)
Zdenek Vencl	...	Czech Guard
Václav Legner	...	Czech Guard
Leon Silver	...	Vaclav
Stephen Marcus	...	Ivan
Marshal Silverman	...	Tailor
Dana Bednarova	...	Svetlana
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Michael Cella	...	Club Dancer (uncredited)
Dave Ulrich	...	DJ (uncredited)
Sharice Zulo	...	Tenant (uncredited)

Directed by
Ken Kwapis

Writing credits (WGA)
Todd Graff		(written by)

Produced by
Roger Birnbaum	....	executive producer
Fran Drescher	....	executive producer
Todd Graff	....	producer
Peter Marc Jacobson	....	executive producer
Hawk Koch	....	producer (as Howard W. 'Hawk' Koch Jr.)

Original Music by
Cliff Eidelman

Cinematography by
Peter Lyons Collister		(director of photography)

Film Editing by
Jon Poll

Casting by
Janet Hirshenson
Jane Jenkins

Production Design by
Rusty Smith

Art Direction by
Steve Cooper

Set Decoration by
Sara Andrews

Costume Design by
Barbara Tfank

Makeup Department
Zdenek Klika	....	makeup artist: Czech Republic
Lucia Mace	....	hair stylist
Carol Meikle	....	hair stylist
Kenneth Paul Schoenfeld	....	makeup artist
Faye Woods	....	hair stylist: Fran Drescher

Production Management
Jan Balzer	....	production supervisor: Czech Republic
Alexandra Koch	....	production supervisor
Michal Prikryl	....	unit manager: Prague
Katerina Schauerová	....	production supervisor
David Streit	....	unit production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Bruce A. Block	....	main title sequence director
Christina Fong	....	second assistant director
Basil Grillo	....	dga trainee
Petr Hartl	....	first assistant director: Czech unit
Craig Huston	....	first assistant director

Art Department
Richard J. Bayard	....	construction coordinator
Mark Lambert Bristol	....	storyboard artist
Susan A. Burig	....	graphic designer
Claudia Gilligan Ivanjack	....	paint foreman
Joseph W. Grafmuller	....	lead man
Tom Ivanjack	....	head paint foreman
Allan Johnson	....	construction location foreman
Erik L. Nelson	....	property master
Andrew Neskoromny	....	assistant art director
Karel Vanásek	....	property master

Sound Department
George H. Anderson	....	supervising sound editor
John Bauman	....	cable person
James Bolt	....	sound re-recording mixer
Ed Callahan	....	sound editor
Anne Couk	....	first assistant sound editor
Linda Di Franco	....	foley editor
Ken Dufva	....	foley artist
Richard Bryce Goodman	....	production sound mixer
Anthony Milch	....	sound editor
Sean Rush	....	boom operator
Randy Singer	....	foley mixer
Mike Szakmeister	....	supervising dialogue editor
Renee Tondelli	....	adr supervisor
David F. Van Slyke	....	sound effects editor
Dana LeBlanc Frankley	....	apprentice sound editor (uncredited)

Special Effects by
Danny Cangemi	....	special effects coordinator

Visual Effects by
John Cornejo	....	digital compositor: Cinesite
Charles Darby	....	digital matte artist
Nicole Herr	....	digital compositor: Cinesite
Brad Kuehn	....	visual effects supervisor
Vincent Lavares	....	tape operator: Cinesite Hollywood
Craig Mathieson	....	digital compositor
Mario Peixoto	....	digital compositor
Cristin Pescosolido	....	motion tracking supervisor
James Valentine	....	rotoscope supervisor
Eric Withee	....	digital film technician: Cinesite (uncredited)

Stunts
Maria Doest	....	stunts
Dick Hancock	....	stunt coordinator
Rosine 'Ace' Hatem	....	stunts (as Ace Hatem)
Sonia Izzolena	....	stunts (as Sonia Jo McDancer)
Steven Lambert	....	stunts (as Steve Lambert)
Rita Minor	....	stunts
Frank Moran	....	stunts
Thomas Rosales Jr.	....	stunts
Rick Sawaya	....	stunts
Mary Torres	....	stunts
Brian J. Williams	....	stunts

Camera and Electrical Department
Stuart Abramson	....	key grip
Claudette Barius	....	still photographer
Gary A. Beaird	....	rigging key grip (as Gary 'Bullet' Beaird Jr.)
Tony Bendt	....	company grip
Darrin DeLoach	....	assistant camera
Edward Filian	....	grip
Jeb Johenning	....	digital video assist operator
Shane D. Kelly	....	gaffer
Jim McComas	....	rigging electrician
Michael B. Moers	....	second assistant camera
Zdenek Mrkvicka	....	assistant camera
Bruce M. Pasternack	....	camera operator
Andrea Sachs	....	gaffer
Jaromir Simek	....	electrician
Petr Svoboda	....	electrician
Larry Kaster	....	gaffer: second unit (uncredited)
Larry Markart	....	video playback (uncredited)

Animation Department
Wincat Alcala	....	animator
Peter Anderson	....	animation clean-up artist
Jane Baer	....	animation producer
Richard Baneham	....	animator
Andy Chiang	....	animation character designer
John Dillon	....	animator
Dindo Dinglasan	....	animation inbetween artist
Greg Fleming	....	inbetween artist
Aidan Flynn	....	animation clean-up artist
Mike Hodgson	....	animation layout artist
Ray Huerta	....	animator
Vesselin Kamenov	....	animation inbetween artist
Norma Klingler	....	assistant animator
Holger Leihe	....	animation supervisor
Wantana Martinelli	....	animation inbetween artist
Linda Miller	....	animator
Jim Mondares	....	animation background artist
Tao Huu Nguyen	....	animation clean-up supervisor
Andrew Ramos	....	animation inbetween artist
C.J. Sarachene	....	animation clean-up artist (as Carolyn J. Sarachene)
Lynn Walsh	....	animation inbetween artist
Todd Waterman	....	animator
Johan Klingler	....	assistant animator (uncredited)

Casting Department
Shannon Dunn	....	extras casting

Music Department
Geoff Alexander	....	orchestrator
Pete Anthony	....	orchestrator
Brent Brooks	....	music editor
Andy Brown	....	music contractor
Cliff Eidelman	....	conductor
Vic Fraser	....	music preparation
Greg Knowles	....	orchestrator
The London Metropolitan Orchestra	....	music performed by
Paul Mottram	....	orchestrator
Jonathan Rees	....	orchestra leader
Jay B. Richardson	....	music editor
Patrick Russ	....	orchestrator
Liz Schrek	....	music coordinator
Graham Walker	....	music production supervisor
Toby Wood	....	assistant scoring engineer (uncredited)

Transportation Department
Mike Fenster	....	transportation captain
Jiri Husak	....	transportation captain

Other crew
Rachel Aberly	....	publicist
Kerry Bailey	....	production assistant
Michael Barnes	....	financial legal services
Paula Bonhomme	....	production assistant
Francie Brown	....	dialect coach
Barclay Crenshaw	....	production assistant
Zdenek Fiala	....	location manager
Cecily Gambrell	....	production assistant
David Guilbeau	....	crafts services (as David 'Cajun' Guilbeau)
Katerina Lahodova	....	production coordinator
Larry Madrid	....	animal trainer
Ken Martin	....	assistant: Ken Kwapis
Susan P. McCarthy	....	production coordinator
Pavlina Prikrylova	....	production assistant
Debbie Silverman	....	production assistant
Russell Steele	....	assistant production auditor
Jiri Tichacek	....	assistant accountant
Dennis Todorovic	....	production assistant
Diane Ward	....	assistant production coordinator
Michael Williams	....	production coordinator
Wendy Goldfisher	....	payroll accountant (uncredited)
Jack E. Herman	....	extras set coordinator (uncredited)

Production Companies

• High School Sweethearts
• Koch Company
• Paramount Pictures

Distributors

• Paramount Pictures (1997) (USA) (theatrical)
• National Broadcasting Company (NBC) (2000) (USA) (TV) (broadcast premiere)
• Argentina Video Home (Argentina) (DVD)
• Argentina Video Home (Argentina) (VHS)
• CIC Vídeo (Brazil) (VHS)
• CIC-Taft Home Video

Other Companies

• AFM Lighting  lighting equipment
• BT Industrial Supply  expendables
• Barrandov Studios  studio facilities provided by
• London Metropolitan Orchestra, The  orchestra
• Milan Records  soundtrack
• Reeltime Creative  trailer music

Also Known As:

MPAA:

Rated PG for some mild language and sensuality

Runtime:

105 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Argentina:Atp | Australia:PG | Chile:TE | Peru:PT | Singapore:PG | UK:PG (video premiere) | USA:PG (certificate #34952) | Iceland:L

Filming Locations:

Greystone Park & Mansion - 905 Loma Vista Drive, Beverly Hills, California, USA

Company:

High School Sweethearts

Trivia:

Most signs in the movie are written in Czech, albeit nonsensically and mostly without the proper diacritics. The banner at the secret resistance meeting says "to unite correct"; the warning signs in the factory read "Danger: Steam"; and the scribbles on the newspaper mean "From our readers' letters". The labor decree that Pochenko draws up is only seen for a split second in one shot, but part of it says "further site updates are hereby postponed".

Goofs:

Continuity: When Joy is in the kitchen trying to scare the chicken to death, the chicken changes places repeatedly in between shots.

Quotes:

Joy Miller:Come on, we can make our own sandwich.
Boris Pochenko:I don't know where anything is in this kitchen.
Joy Miller:Oh come on, I can find food at Ghandi's house. What're you kidding me?
Boris Pochenko:You should try running a country for a day. It's not all making war and smashing dissidents, you know. It's hard work.
Joy Miller:I'm sure it is.
Boris Pochenko:Where is some...
Joy Miller:What?
Boris Pochenko:Mayonnaise?
Joy Miller:We finished it.
Boris Pochenko:Oh.
[...]

Movie Connections:

Spoofs Evita (1996)

Soundtrack:

Isn't It Romantic

I love it !

I don't care if Timothy Dalton has a shitty accent in this movie. I don't care if Fran Drescher has a nasal voice. So what that Slovetzia doesn't exist, and the bad people are dark, gloomy western stereotypes of former eastern regimes. I don't care, as long as I enjoy watching it. I totally adore this movie. It leaves me with a giggle and a big smile on my face, and movies that do that make just as much sense to me as Schindler's List, if I'm in the mood to watch that kind of movie. I love a movie, where I can put my brain on stand by and just enjoy it. I've just received the movie today, and I know, that tonight will be chips and dip night in front of the TV. Just can't wait to watch it again. A big 10 from me for the entertainment value.