Synopsis
In London, during October 1993, England is playing Holland in the preliminaries of the World Cup. The Bosnian War is at its height, and refugees from the ex-Yugoslavia are arriving. Football rivals, and political adversaries from the Balkans all precipitate conflict and amusing situations. Meanwhile, the lives of four English families are affected in different ways by encounter with the refugees.
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Cast
- Charlotte ColemanPortia Thornton
- Charles KayGeorge Thornton
- Rosalind AyresNora Thornton
- Julian FirthEdward Thornton
- Edward JewesburyJoseph Thornton
- Nicholas FarrellDr Mouldy
- Danny NussbaumGriffin Midge
- Roger SlomanRoger Midge
- Heather TobiasFelicity Midge
- Kenan HudaverdiRailway Worker
Recommendations
- 90
Rolling Stone
Fierce, funny and vividly moving. - 90
The New York Times
Is, in the end, a boisterous love song -- a funny valentine to London, to chaos and to human decency. - 83
Portland Oregonian
If dissonance is your dish, you'll find Beautiful People tempting indeed. - 80
Dallas Observer
Deftly delivered and free of gratuitous gloss, yet enormously rich in its unassuming manner. - 80
L.A. Weekly
Dizdar maintains a knife-edged balance in tone throughout the film - 75
Miami Herald
Often grim, but never nihilistic: Even at its darkest, Dizdar gives the movie an optimistic bounce. The movie is often shockingly funny, too. - 75
Chicago Sun-Times
It is fairly lighthearted, under the circumstances; like "Catch-22," it enjoys the paradoxes that occur when you try to apply logic to war. - 70
Film.com
More whimsical than gloomy, for all the horrors it alludes to or depicts.
