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Beautiful (2000) -- Mona sacrifices everything, including family, in pursuit of a beauty pageant victory. Her friend Ruby helps her to an amazing degree.

Overview

User Rating:
4.4/10   2,118 votes
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Director:
Writer (WGA):
Jon Bernstein (written by)
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Release Date:
29 September 2000 (USA) more
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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
Awards:
1 nomination more
User Comments:
Don't believe the reviews! more (54 total)

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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1.85 : 1 more
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Trivia:
Bridgette Wilson who plays Miss Texas was actually once Miss Teen USA. more
Goofs:
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. more
Quotes:
Vanessa: Everybody's staring at us.
Mona Hibbard: Yeah, 'cause I'm pretty!
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Movie Connections:
References "The Oprah Winfrey Show" (1986) more
Soundtrack:
The Second Day more

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7 out of 11 people found the following comment useful.
Don't believe the reviews!, 1 October 2000
8/10
Author: Ed Cohen from Philadelphia, PA

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?

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