Beautiful Girls (1996)

• Year: 1996
• Released: 09 Feb 1996
• Country: United States
• Adwords: 1 win & 3 nominations
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115639/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/beautiful_girls
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/beautiful-girls
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
• Runtime: 112 min
• Writer: Scott Rosenberg
• Director: Ted Demme
• Cast: Matt Dillon, Timothy Hutton, Noah Emmerich
• Keywords: friendship, coming of age, small town, group of friends, hometown,

	7.1/10
	64/100
	77% – Critics
	80% – Audience

Beautiful Girls Storyline

New York based jazz pianist Willie Conway heads back to his small hometown of Knights Ridge, Massachusetts for a high school reunion. The trip is as much to go to the reunion and see his old friends – none of whom left Knights Ridge after graduation – as it is to get away from his current life, at which he is at a crossroads both personally and professionally. He is just eking out a living with his piano playing gigs, and as such he is thinking about taking a sales job. He’s also not sure if he’s ready to marry his long time girlfriend, lawyer Tracy Stover. Most of Willie’s Knights Ridge blue collar friends’ best days were in high school, they still having that “trophy” mentality of girlfriends and wives. Only Michael “Mo” Morris is happily married with a family. Paul Kirkwood, whose room is plastered with magazine pictures of models, wants his waitress ex-girlfriend Jan back only because he knows now that he can’t have her. And Tommy “Birdman” Rowland, who was the big man in high school, is trying to end his affair with his now married high school girlfriend, Darian Smalls. Despite knowing about Darian, Tommy’s current girlfriend, Sharon Cassidy, stands by her man through bad and worse. A cousin of their bar owning friend Stanley “Stinky” Womack, the beautiful Andera who is visiting from Chicago, may provide the voice of reason for this group of friends in dealing with their women problems. Some reason is what Willie may need in trying to figure out why he is attracted to Marty, his father’s thirteen year old neighbor, especially as Willie learns that Tracy has decided to join him for the reunion.

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Beautiful Girls Movie Reviews

Stays Cool Forever

Well, this one was a surprise. The characters and their stories draw you in and make you want to stay with them. A few pretty thin women, an unconventional romance, several very clever and funny lines that will stick in your head and by the time it ends you wish for more.

Class reunion

Movie makers have a fascination for taking us back to our home towns once one has moved away because it is a place where one has happy memories about one’s youth. We have seen this theme in movie after movie, so it’s no surprise to be going on a trip back home as “Beautiful Girls” unfolds.

Willie is coming back because it’s going to be his class reunion, although it’s the middle of the winter in Massachussets. When he gets there it’s clear what memories he had about the place, are now completely changed. His friends have lives of their own as they stayed in town. Some are happily married and adjusted, as is the case with Mo. Some are married, but unhappy, Tommy is the perfect example. Some have never been able to achieve happiness like Paul who is in love, but the object his affections doesn’t return his love.

In fact, Willie seems like a fish out of water. He has left behind a girlfriend who loves him, but meeting the precocious 13 year old girl- next-door Marty, presents a problem for him. He likes the young girl even though he knows it’s something he can’t have.

So go the different stories in “Beautiful Girls” a film that takes a look at the realities of life as years go by. Ted Demme, the director, has transferred Scott Rosenberg’s vision to the screen using some amazing talented actors to portray the different characters in the movie.

Timothy Hutton, Matt Dillon, Michael Rapaport, Natalie Portman, Mira Sorvino, Annabeth Gish, Noah Emmerich, do excellent work under Mr. Demme’s guidance. The rest of the cast is effective in giving us an idea of what it’s like to live in a small town.

Great moments

Pianist Willie Conway (Timothy Hutton) is going back home for his high school reunion. He isn’t making it and is at a crossroads. He finds himself falling for the 13 year old girl next door Marty (Natalie Portman). Many of his friends who stayed in town are dealing with their own problems with love and unreasonable expectations. Paul Kirkwood (Michael Rapaport) is a child not satisfied with his girlfriend, still chasing for the next girl, and expounding on the virtues of the Beautiful Girls.

There are a lot of memorable scenes. Rosie O’Donnell delivers a diatribe against the illusions of beautiful girls. But it’s Natalie Portman who steals the show with a smart old soul. If there’s anything, there’re too many characters, too many story lines, too many relationships. It dilutes the product. A few less lead characters would be very helpful.