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Overview
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Director:
Writer (WGA):
Jon Bernstein (written by)
Release Date:
29 September 2000 (USA)
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Tagline:
Sometimes you have to give up the life of your dreams, to discover the dream of your life.
Plot:
Mona sacrifices everything, including family, in pursuit of a beauty pageant victory. Her friend Ruby helps her to an amazing degree. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
1 nomination
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(13 articles)
DVD Playhouse--November 2009
(From The Hollywood Interview. 14 November 2009, 6:25 PM, PST)
Maude Maggart Plays 'Parents and Children' at Feinstein's, 11/10 - 11/14
(From BroadwayWorld.com. 14 November 2009, 1:30 AM, PST)
(From The Hollywood Interview. 14 November 2009, 6:25 PM, PST)
Maude Maggart Plays 'Parents and Children' at Feinstein's, 11/10 - 11/14
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Don't believe the reviews!
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Minnie Driver | ... | Mona Hibbard |
 | Joey Lauren Adams | ... | Ruby |
 | Hallie Kate Eisenberg | ... | Vanessa |
 | Kathleen Turner | ... | Verna Chickle |
 | Leslie Stefanson | ... | Joyce Parkins |
 | Bridgette Wilson | ... | Lorna Larkin, Miss Texas (as Bridgette L. Wilson) |
 | Kathleen Robertson | ... | Wanda Love, Miss Tennessee |
 | Michael McKean | ... | Lance DeSalvo |
 | Gary Collins | ... | Miss American Miss Host |
 | Linda Hart | ... | Nedra Hibbard |
 | Brent Briscoe | ... | Lurdy |
| Colleen Rennison | ... | Mona at 12 |
| Jacqueline Steiger | ... | Ruby at 12 |
| Sylvia Short | ... | Alberta |
| Herta Ware | ... | Clara |
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Rated PG-13 for language and thematic elements.
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112 min
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Bridgette Wilson who plays Miss Texas was actually once Miss Teen USA.
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Continuity: There are references to there being 50 representatives in the pageant, however "Miss District of Columbia" is seen numerous times during the early stages of the pageant.
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References "The Oprah Winfrey Show" (1986)
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The Second Day
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The contrast between the newspaper reviewers--who clobbered "Beautiful"--and its generally favorable bulletin board comments is extreme. The movie I saw is funny, entertaining, and has something thoughtful to add to discussion of gender politics, as well as to the various earlier films about beauty pageants.
"Beautiful" asks whether or not it is OK to continue having beauty pageants, and yet drop the requirement that the participants have refrained from motherhood, thereby straying from the pageants' vestal virgin ceremony origins. "Beautiful" answers in the affirmative, since that way pageants may yet have value in the personal development and empowerment of young women. If they are done with a little common sense, pageants need not be about objectifying or patronizing women
Apparently, that view was too politically incorrect for most big media critics. How would they have reviewed "Beautiful," had it been directed by Robert Altman instead of Sally Field?