Perry Kate Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

JinRoz For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Python Hyena Beautiful (2000): Dir: Sally Field / Cast: Minnie Driver, Hallie Kate Eisenberg, Joey Lauren Adams, Kathleen Turner, Leslie Stefanson: Brain dead embarrassment supposedly representing change of character. Minnie Driver plays a spoiled brat who dreams of becoming Miss America. She gets pregnant and Joey Lauren Adams raises the child. Pitiful situations arrive such as Driver assisting a woman in labor. She announces constantly that she is Miss Illonois while wheeling her out in a shopping cart. Adams is a care giver arrested when a patient overdoses on pills but freed with no explanation as to how she was found innocent. Early hints of incest are also never addressed. Horrible directing by Sally Field who probably should stay in front of the camera where she is at her best, in films better than this one. Driver is embarrassing in pretty much every scene and that is saying something considering the level of talent she has demonstrated in other films. Hallie Kate Eisenberg goes through the motions as her daughter. Adams isn't exactly giving a Chasing Amy performance here especially since her role is very loosely written and handled. Kathleen Turner is an unfortunate waste. Leslie Stefanson plays a fellow idiot contestant. While it examines various aspects of beauty pageants it can never avoid becoming something that is anything but beautiful. Score: 2 / 10

vincentlynch-moonoi Admittedly, this film was not one that should have expected to have a big audience...which is probably why it lost so much money. The first niche audience it had was that it was a woman's movie...but I'm not sure even most women would buy into this film. Nevertheless, I (as a man) liked it, although it is a tad bit depressing.The most basic thing this movie is about is -- people who can't.The main character is played by Minnie Driver. She is a young woman who has been aiming to win a national beauty pageant since she was a child. Unfortunately, she couldn't win those child pageants because she couldn't compete with girls who were naturally beautiful, had supportive parents, and a sense of taste. The first part of the film is the character as a cjild, but then Minnie Driver plays the young woman. Driver is good here, although what she's good at is playing a character who is totally self-absorbed and totally selfish.Joey Lauren Adams plays the best friend, who is totally supportive, going so far as to adopt Driver's illegitimate child so she can still compete in the "miss" contests. I'm not familiar with her from other films, but she's quite good here, and plays a character who can't defend herself when she is accused of killing a nursing home patient she cares for.Hallie Eisenberg plays the illegitimate daughter. What a natural! The supporting actors do well here, including Kathleen Turner. Turner plays a former beauty contestant who couldn't compete, but now trains children to become beauty contestants. The mother of Driver in the film plays the mother who can't...successfully raise a child.So, this is a movie about those who can't. The question is, will Driver's character grow up and develop some substance? Of course, we know the answer, but what's very solid about this film is that it doesn't come easy. Admittedly, the ending is a bit unrealistic. But it works, and makes the statement Sally Field (director) apparently wanted to make.Is it a great film? No. But it has substance to it, and, there are those who will agree that it's well worth watching.

La_Pirata_Loca Minnie Driver does an excellent job at this film. It's the first one that I ever saw. Mona (Minnie Driver) wanted to be Miss America Miss ever since she was twelve. Her life long friend Ruby helps her with her dresses and calms her down when she starts to panic. Though Mona has a secret. To be Miss America Miss you can't have a child but Mona did and Ruby covered for her saying the child was hers. Mona and Vanessa (her child) do not get along, but when Ruby is accused of an elder patient taking an overdose and is put in jail, Mona takes Vanessa with her to California and the two grow to be kinder to each other. Then, when Mona is a part of the top three, is admits to the world that Vanessa is Mona's daughter. The shock inspired everyone and she was named the first Miss America Miss that has a child. She uses her money to free Ruby and gives her a car. This movie is awesome. Minnie Driver does an excellent job and gets so into the character. Plus she has a great singing voice. She is really great.

cimorene_fantasy For a great deal of the film my eyes did wander around as it is not the most riveting of film experiences; however, the ending was worthy of a standing ovation and tears.Throughout the story, I found myself wondering whether I should sympathise with Mona, a woman with such a desire to win that she selfishly sabotages fellow contestants and locks her own daughter out of her life. On the other hand, I was able to relate to the story of a woman who strove to be the best only to falter and be dragged down by peers. In a sense, Mona is to be applauded for her determination to shine through a life of failure and loneliness - a true testament to the feats that can be achieved though hard work. Naturally, giving up her child to selfishly pursue a vain dream is almost despicable but it makes the triumphant ending ever so much more inspiring, that this confused human being triumphs not only over adversity to be crowned Miss American Miss, but more importantly, that she conquers her own self-centred frailties to realise the joy to be found in loving the beautiful gift of life she already possesses.