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The Beautician and the Beast

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The Beautician and the Beast
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PG,1hr 45min
Genres:
Comedy,Romance
Released:
February 7, 1997
Director:
Ken Kwapis
Distributor:
Paramount
Starring:
Fran Drescher, Timothy Dalton, Ian McNeice  ...more
Synopsis: Joy Miller (Fran Drescher) is a beautician who teaches an evening course in hairstyling at a Brooklyn community college. When a cigarette dropped on a wig leads to a fire, Joy saves the lab animals kept in the building and achieves 15 minutes of local notoriety. Grushinsky (Ian McNeice), a representative of the leader of the small Eastern European nation of Slovetzia, is visiting the United States while looking for a tutor for the leader's three children. Thinking Joy teaches science (apparently ... Full Synopsis
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Derek Armstrong, AMG Review
Beautician and the Beast is the prototypical example of a style of romantic farce that thrived in the 1990s, even using two particularly well-worn scenarios: "opposites attract" and "outsider cons his/her way into real/metaphorical royalty." But even though the setup is unremarkably ordinary, it's executed with a certain competence, occasionally rising to the level of contagious. Bringing her Nanny ... Full Review
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Fran Drescher
Joy Miller
Timothy Dalton
Boris Pochenko
Ian McNeice
Grushinsky
Patrick Malahide
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