The most romantic love story I've seen
Why I Love Beautiful Thing in 100 Words or Less
Beautiful Thing
Amazon Price: $22.49 (as of 01/03/2010)
Its a touching tale of two young men growing up and falling in love. Ste, the athletic next-door neighbor comes to stay with Jaime, the shy unpopular boy when Ste's father and brother abuse him. Sandra (Jaime's mother) is a strong, protective women who is upset by Jaime missing sports, she later finds out why. Ste and Jaime gradually fall in love and its really delightful to watch their relationship blossom. It's a movie that will tug at your heart strings.
Beautiful Thing Stats
Genre:
Drama
Directed by:
Hettie MacDonald
Written by:
Jonathan Harvey
Actors:
Linda Henry
Glen Berry
Scott Neal
Some clips from the movie
P.S - Some of these may contain spoilers if you haven't seen the ending and such. (don't worry, its a good ending =D )
What do you think?
Beautiful Thing is the best gay/lesbian movie
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schmangell says:
I love this film. I was absolutely blown away when I first stumbled upon it. I wish something like this had been around in my teen years. It would have helped save me from years of self-loathing. I also think every teen should see this, not only for the kids struggling with accepting their sexuality, but for the straight kids as a lesson in acceptance.
This is a simple coming-of-age story told with great sensitivity and wit. But I think the sum is greater than its parts. It is an important film for this generation.
I hope Sony Classics sees fit to reissue the DVD in the Blu-ray format.
Posted February 21, 2008
Bob says:
This film grabbed me like no other before or since. It really is just a basic coming-of-age story, but it is told with such great sensitivity and wit. I sure wish I could have seen something like this when I was young. I believe it would have helped save me from years of self-loathing. I was more like the Ste character growing up. I never found a Jamie, sadly.
-Do you think I'm queer?
-Doesn't matter what I think.
I don't think I could even breath for quite a while after that line and I've been hooked ever since.
Posted February 21, 2008
Wrong! It's not the best!
alchemistic says:
I'd say it was probably a "good" movie, but, since I had to watch the youtube vids to remind myself I had seen it, it couldn't have had that much of an impact on me.
I have seen far better movies. But, any movie where they dare to address being gay or growing up gay is a "good" movie.
For rating this movie, if there were more selections to choose from, other then just best and not...I'd select somewhere in between. But, I had to choose it's not...
Posted January 22, 2008
Rachael says:
I wouldn't call this movie "the best", but it was enjoyable and somehow very calming. It was a little boring and moved a tad slow, but it was very romantic. Perhaps that's my main problem with this movie, because I am not very romantic.
Posted January 10, 2008
My Favorite Beautiful Thing Quotes
Many quotes from this movie are romantic, others are humorous. These are 3 of my favorites, tell me what you think or add your own!
Showdown!
Is it okay for these boys growing up to be gay?
Fetching blurbs now... please stand byThe kids at school pick on Jaime because he's always looking longingly at them, and theres a general feeling that no one will accept his and Ste's relationship
Jaime and Ste fall in love, and find a place called The Glocuster, a gay bar where they have a good time. Jaime's mom finds out but agrees that their relationship is indeed a Beautiful Thing and allows it.
schmangell says:
Is it OK for the choir to sing? If that's what they are, then it's more than OK.
Like Bill Belechick says, "It is what it is."
Posted February 21, 2008
alchemistic says:
Well sure it's "OK" for these boys to be growing up gay! That's like asking if it's ok to be growing up blonde or Dutch. Being gay isn't a choice, you are born gay.
You can "act" as though you're not gay, whe you are. You can try to fool everyone, but you wont fool yourself without doing damage to your spirit/soul.
Posted January 22, 2008
Rachael says:
What a question--of course it's okay! They'll have some problems, like at school and such, but they'll make it through. If they don't, then it wasn't meant to be.
Posted January 11, 2008
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My Favorite Scene
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I really loved the peppermint foot lotion scene, but I obviously enjoyed others too, tell me your favorites!
Peppermint Foot Lotion
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Who was your favorite character?
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Other Beautiful Thing sites to check out
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115640/
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A few more Beautiful Thing sites!
Consider this lens a hub for all Beautiful Things
- Beautiful Thing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- The Wikipedia entry for Beautiful Thing! Always full of good information
- Production Notes
- Production Notes from Beautiful Thing
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