Synopsis
Determined to win the Miss American Miss pageant, Mona is ready to sacrifice anything and everything to guarantee herself the crown including her own daughter! She manages to persuade her best bud to raise the kid as her own (Miss AM can't be a mom), but just when this beauty-queen wannabe thinks her prize is in sight, she's surprised by a come-from-behind competitor. Love.
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Cast
- Minnie DriverMona
- Joey Lauren AdamsRuby
- Hallie EisenbergVanessa
- Kathleen TurnerVerna Chickle
- Leslie StefansonJoyce Parkins
- Bridgette Wilson-SamprasLorna Larkin (Miss Texas)
- Kathleen RobertsonWanda Love (Miss Tennessee)
- Michael McKeanLance DeSalvo
- Gary CollinsMiss American Miss Host
- Linda HartNedra Hibbard
Recommendations
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TV Guide Magazine
Sally Field has actually made a likeable movie. - 40
Film.com
Beautiful is a mess, but not without interest. - 38
USA Today
Burdened with so many poky scenes that it approaches the level of the distributor's "Drowning Mona" and "Whipped," both candidates for the year's worst. - 38
San Francisco Examiner
SORRY, SALLY. I didn't like it. I really didn't like it. - 30
Chicago Reader
Sally Field's direction is pedestrian, though she does manage to get winning performances out of Driver and Eisenberg. - 25
San Francisco Chronicle
(Driver) is stuck in a mess of a movie that suffers from awkward writing, a plot with major disconnects in plausibility, an annoyingly screechy kid character and cheesy production values. - 25
Chicago Sun-Times
It's a movie with so many inconsistencies, improbabilities, unanswered questions and unfinished characters that we have to suspend not only disbelief but also intelligence. - 20
L.A. Weekly
Made with the slick, shorthand complacency of a TV movie, Beautiful is so overstuffed with contrivance, you can hardly breathe.
