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Beautiful Thing

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Beautiful Thing
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R,1hr 29min
Genres:
Comedy,Drama
Released:
October 11, 1996
Director:
Hettie MacDonald
Distributor:
Import
Starring:
Linda Henry, Andrew Fraser, Julie Smith  ...more
Synopsis: In this alternately somber and witty coming-of-age drama, a pair of teenage boys growing up in a working-class neighborhood become aware of their homosexuality. Introspective Jamie (Glen Berry) is the son of Sandra (Linda Henry), a tough but warm-hearted barmaid who lives in a public housing block in a rough-and-tumble section of South London. Living a few doors away is Jamie's classmate Ste (Scott Neal), an athletic type who often has to take a beating from his hard-drinking father and hard-headed ... Full Synopsis
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Brian J. Dillard, AMG Review
Although it's a remarkably unself-conscious, non-dogmatic and tender gay love story, the film Beautiful Thing loses something in its translation from the original stage version. South London writer Jonathan Harvey adapted his own play for the screen and enlisted its original stage director, Hettie MacDonald, but in reworking the material for the cinema the pair lose some of its focus and economy. The ... Full Review
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Linda Henry
Sandra Gangel
Andrew Fraser
Jayson
Julie Smith
Gina
Glen Berry
Jamie Gangel
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