Beautiful Girls
Short description
Beautiful Girls takes place in the fictional Massachusetts town of Knight's Ridge during an especially snowy winter. Willie Conway, a pianist nearing thirty, comes home from New York for a high school reunion and finds his old friends at a similar crossroads. He weighs whether to keep playing music or take a sales job, and whether to marry his girlfriend Tracy, a lawyer. Around him, Tommy drifts through casual work and flirts with trouble, Michael chafes at married life, and Paul chases an unattainable fantasy. The reunion stirs up old feelings and sets the men's friendships against their romances.
Ted Demme directed the film, his third feature, following Who's the Man? and The Ref; Scott Rosenberg wrote the screenplay and Cary Woods produced. Timothy Hutton plays Willie, with Matt Dillon, Noah Emmerich, Annabeth Gish, Lauren Holly and Uma Thurman among a credited cast of thirty-nine. Made for about 16 million dollars, it took in roughly 11 million worldwide.
The film sits between comedy, drama and romance. On IMDb it holds 7.1 out of 10 from around 36,000 votes, while on TMDB it averages 6.7 from 422 votes. A critics' rating of 7.2 from 50 reviews places it slightly above the audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- Director Ted Demme (1963-2002) instructed Timothy Hutton to kiss Natalie Portman on the cheek. The actress was unaware of this, and the film shows her genuine, unacted reaction to the kiss.
- Director Ted Demme instructed Timothy Hutton to kiss Natalie Portman on the cheek. The actress was unaware of this, and the film shows her genuine reaction to the kiss.
- Before filming began, director Ted Demme brought the actors to Minneapolis and housed them together for 2-3 weeks so they could get to know each other better.
- The film's script reflects the experiences of its author, Scott Rosenberg, upon returning to his hometown in Massachusetts. According to his own words, it was the worst winter in the city's history, and he was at the time waiting to see if his screenplay, "Air Prison," would be put into production, and thinking that he was getting tired of writing action scripts. As Rosenberg said, he became much more interested in writing about his friends who were turning 30 and their problems.
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