Beautiful Girls

Thoughts Before Watching: I've seen Beautiful Girls quite a few times but haven't seen it since the end of 1999, so that is a good couple of years. I used to really like this movie and Natalie Portman's terrific performance always stood out for me. I am lookinh forward to seeing it again.

What's Good?: Natalie Portman is absolutely amazing and the rest of the cast fill there roles very well- Max Perlich should get more work. There are some great one line zingers ("Somebody's been eating retard sandwiches")- Ted Demme (who died in 2002) directs probably his best movie (Blow comes close) and Scott Rosenberg's script is not like the other films written by him that come to mind (he wrote Con-Air).

What's Bad?: On occasion the dialogue can feel just like like "cool" things spouted by the actors.

Defining Moment: "Sweet Carolina", the former high school gang sing along to the Neil Diamond classic. The Cameron Crowe moment not done by Mr. Crowe.

Overall: A very, very good movie with likeable and human characters, I'd recommend this to anybody who likes character based dramady.

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