Beautiful Girls is all about what happens when a person comes to the crossroads in their life and what it means to discover what’s really important. When Will Conway returns home he’s still unsure as to which course his life should take, but as he begins to hang out with his friends he gradually comes to a better understanding of how his life should go and what path he should take. It’s not a coming of age story but more of a transition from one stage of life to another. Those that have gone through this stage in their life know very well how difficult it can be, and should be able to relate to this movie very easily.
Here are a few things you might not have known about the film.
10. The script was based on the screenwriter’s own life experiences.
He’d apparently gotten tired of writing action movies and decided to take this idea from events that were unfolding in his own life.
9. The cast had to live with each other for 2 to 3 weeks.
This was an attempt to get them to bond and as a result create a more cohesive unit for the film.
8. There are three Oscar winners included in the cast.
Mira Sorvino, Timothy Hutton, and Natalie Portman have all won an Oscar for their performances over the years.
7. Eventually Uma Thurman and Natalie Portman would go on to star in superhero movies.
Uma Thurman went to Batman and Robin while Portman would go on to the Thor movies.
6. Natalie Portman’s response to Hutton’s kiss on the cheek is genuine.
Hutton was told by the director to give her a quick kiss on the cheek and she wasn’t expecting it, so her reaction is very real.
5. Michael Rapaport and Mira Sorvino had worked with each other before.
They starred together on the set of Mighty Aphrodite so they were pretty comfortable around one another.
4. James L. Brooks almost directed the film at one point.
This is more of a rumor than a real fact and it was spread by someone for some reason. It could have been true but there’s no real basis to it.
3. A Penthouse magazine was used to mock the ‘ideal woman’.
It was used more or less to make fun of the unrealistic expectations of what women are supposed to look like in the eyes of men. It also had something to do with what men tended to expect from women versus what they would actually get.
2. It makes used of Neil Diamond’s Sweet Caroline.
The song was used in a scene involving a gin mill in a fictitious New England town when it reality it’s used in Boston Red Sox games at this time.
1. Only three of the characters in the cast were playing their actual age.
Mira Sorvino, Max Perlich, and Anne Bobby were the only ones whose characters mirrored their own ages. Rapaport and Hutton were supposedly the same age in the film but Hutton is really ten years older.
It was an amusing movie.
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