Beautiful girls
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Beautiful girls |
| Original title | Beautiful girls |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1996 |
| length | 109 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ted Demme |
| script | Scott Rosenberg |
| production | Cary Woods |
| music | David A. Stewart |
| camera | Adam Kimmel |
| cut | Jeffrey Wolf |
| occupation | |
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Beautiful Girls is an American film directed by Ted Demme from the year 1996 .
action
Tommy Rowland and friends attended the same class at a school in the small town of Knights Ridge, Massachusetts . Willie Conway moved to New York City where he works as a musician. He has to make the decision whether he and his partner, the lawyer Tracy, should marry or not.
On the occasion of a class reunion organized years later, the friends see each other again. Each of them now has their own life. Conway learns that his friends are plagued by similar doubts as he is about the future and prospects. Waiting for his girlfriend to arrive, he falls in love with the thirteen-year-old girl next door to his family, Marty. Marty reveals to him that she is in love with him herself.
Paul Kirkwood asks Andera to meet him to make a woman jealous. He kisses her while dancing, whereupon Andera storms out of the bar.
Darian Smalls, Tommy Rowland's former childhood sweetheart, is unhappily married and has a little girl. Darian and Tommy are still attracted to each other after Tommy made a few half-hearted attempts to get rid of Darian for good, not least to avoid jeopardizing his own relationship. As the affair became known in the entire city, it comes to an argument between Tommy and Darian's husband, as a result Tommy ends up in the hospital.
Reviews
Desson Howe described the film in the Washington Post on February 9, 1996 as "ironic" and "touching". He praised the script, the direction and the performances by Timothy Hutton, Matt Dillon, Rosie O'Donnell, Michael Rapaport and Uma Thurman.
The lexicon of international films wrote that the film followed "original approaches", but the characters were not "coherently developed". The film is "superficial", it lacks "inner tension".
Awards
Scott Rosenberg won an award at the San Sebastián International Film Festival in 1996 ; Ted Demme was nominated for the Golden Seashell of the same festival.
background
Filming took place in Minnesota and New York City . The film grossed approximately $ 20.8 million in US cinemas .
Soundtrack
Track list
- Roland Gift - That's How Strong My Love Is 6:18
- Afghan Whigs - Be for Real 4:16
- Howlin 'Maggie - Easy to Be Stupid 4:51
- Billy Paul - Me and Mrs. Jones 4:48
- Satchel - Suffering 4:49
- Chris Isaak - Graduation Day 3:10
- Pete Droge & the Sinners - Beautiful Girl 4:34
- Ween - I'll Miss You 2:56
- Afghan Whigs - Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe 5:21
- The Spinners - Could It Be I'm Falling in Love 4:31
- Kiss - Beth 2:46
- King Floyd - Groove Me 3:01
- The Diamonds - The Stroll 2:31
- Neil Diamond - Sweet Caroline 3:24
Additional tracks (not included on soundtrack)
- Greg Kihn Band - The Break Up Song (They Don't Write Them Like That Any More)
- Split Enz - I Got You
- A Flock of Seagulls - I Ran
- Billy Preston - Will It Go Round In Circles
- Jethro Tull - Locomotive Breath
- Bernie Wyte and his Orchestra - Never On Sunday
- Lou Reed - Walk n the Wild Side
- The Rolling Stones - Fool To Cry
- Morphine - Honey White
swell
- ^ Critique by Desson Howe
- ↑ Beautiful Girls. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Filming locations for Beautiful Girls
- ↑ Business Data for Beautiful Girls
Web links
- Beautiful Girls in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Beautiful Girls at rotten tomatoes (English)