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Beautiful People (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
British Independent Film Awards
Cannes Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 4 )

Running Time:
107 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1999 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Jasmin Dizdar

Written By:
Jasmin Dizdar

Actors:
Thomas Goodridge ..... Youth with Mobile Phone
Faruk Pruti ..... Croat
Tony Peters ..... Bus Driver
Dado Jehan ..... Serb
Rosalind Ayres ..... Nora Thornton
Julian Firth ..... Edward Thornton
Charles Kay ..... George Thornton
Charlotte Coleman ..... Portia Thornton
Edward Jewesbury ..... Joseph Thornton
Bobby Williams ..... Tim Mouldy
Joseph Williams ..... Tom Mouldy
Nicholas Farrell ..... Dr. Mouldy
Danny Nussbaum ..... Griffin Midge
Steve Sweeney ..... Jim
Jay Simpson ..... Bigsy

Synopsis:

Beautiful People pursues five apparently separate London stories which eventually intersect and, in a couple of cases, merge. There's a young doctor whose upper-class, Tory backbencher father is having difficulty adjusting to her Bosnian boyfriend, an amiable obstetrician experiencing his own domestic strife and a severe lack of sleep; and a school teacher facing his fiftieth birthday under the cloud created by his wayward soccer obsessed son, while his wife struggles valiantly to keep the peace.

The time is 1993 when the Bosnian War is taking place, and the place is Britain. Through interweaving stories, the lives of some native Britons and Bosnian refugees settled in Britain intersect, or are directly influenced by what is happening back in Bosnia. Nurse in training, Portia Thornton, falls in love with one of her patients, Bosnian Pero Guzina, much to the chagrin of her upper crust family who just don't understand this foreigner. Dr. Mouldy, a maternity ward doctor, takes a special interest in the upcoming birth to a Bosnian couple who, for reasons from the war, don't want their baby-to-be. The doctor's interest is in part due to his own crumbling family life. BBC war correspondent Jerry Higgins is injured from his time covering the war and as a result is permanently physically disabled. He ends up having an unusual wish for himself and will go to extreme lengths to achieve it. Troubled and drug addicted youth, Griffin Midge, has a life altering experience when he unexpectedly gets to see the effects of the war up close and personal. And a feud erupts between an ethnic Serb and an ethnic Croat who by circumstance are forced to spend much time together.

In London, during October 1993, England is playing Holland in the preliminaries of the World Cup. The Bosnian War is at its height, and refugees from the ex-Yugoslavia are arriving. Football rivals, and political adversaries from the Balkans all precipitate conflict and amusing situations. Meanwhile, the lives of four English families are affected in different ways by encounter with the refugees; one of the families improbably becomes involved with a Balkan refugee through the England vs. Holland match.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 30 June, 2006.

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