That's what I felt watching this film. To anyone who has left their little town for the bright lights/big city, and then gone home again hoping the trip would dispel their confusion and vulnerability, this is their film.
Believable characters, a great assembly of an ensemble cast, very real dialogue and dilemmas about a stage of growing up we still have to do in our late 20s-early 30s--that's BEAUTIFUL GIRLS. It's a kindly look at the confused male identity and sexual bafflement faced by guys who are old enough to remember the glory days of high school and also old enough to know that those days are finally not only over but way gone. They had better start forging new personas, and at some level,they know it but hate to admit it.
Best of all, there's hope and redemption, even for us male late-maturers.
Believable characters, a great assembly of an ensemble cast, very real dialogue and dilemmas about a stage of growing up we still have to do in our late 20s-early 30s--that's BEAUTIFUL GIRLS. It's a kindly look at the confused male identity and sexual bafflement faced by guys who are old enough to remember the glory days of high school and also old enough to know that those days are finally not only over but way gone. They had better start forging new personas, and at some level,they know it but hate to admit it.
Best of all, there's hope and redemption, even for us male late-maturers.