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Beautiful (2000) (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
112 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2000 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Sally Field

Written By:
Jon Bernstein

Actors:
Minnie Driver ..... Mona Hibbard
Joey Lauren Adams ..... Ruby
Hallie Kate Eisenberg ..... Vanessa
Kathleen Turner ..... Verna Chickle
Leslie Stefanson ..... Joyce Parkins
Bridgette Wilson-Sampras ..... Lorna Larkin, Miss Tex
Kathleen Robertson ..... Wanda Love, Miss Tennessee
Michael McKean ..... Lance DeSalvo
Gary Collins ..... Miss American Miss Host
Linda Hart ..... Nedra Hibbard
Brent Briscoe ..... Lurdy
Colleen Rennison ..... Mona at 12
Jacqueline Steiger ..... Ruby at 12
Sylvia Short ..... Alberta
Herta Ware ..... Clara

Synopsis:

Mona Hibbard has wanted to be a beauty pageant queen since she was eight, despite not being considered traditional beauty pageant material. This goal is in large part to make up for an unhappy home life while she was growing up. Her primary support for the better part of her life has been her mousy best friend, Ruby Stillwell, with who she currently lives with Ruby's seven year old daughter Vanessa. Mona's hard work and determination as a girl led to her growing up into an adult with this singular focus to the exclusion of all else. Because of what she sees as Mona's selfish attitude, Vanessa can't understand what her mother sees in her. Mona's ultimate dream is one step from reality when she is chosen to represent Illinois in the Miss American Miss pageant. Mona will do whatever it takes to win, much like she did to be crowned Miss Illinois. But when Ruby is detained, Vanessa, who gets a better understanding of Mona after meeting Mona's mother and stepfather, becomes her surrogate family at the pageant. Mona's dream of winning the pageant not only faces the obstacles of forty-nine other contestants, but also Joyce Parkins, an ambitious reporter with a vendetta, and Mona herself, whose priorities may change because of Vanessa.

Mona (Minnie Driver) never dreamed of anything else but wearing the "Miss American Miss" crown. Inspired by that ambition, she uses quirky outfits, self-promotion and a flaming baton-twirling controversy to propel herself from mere consolation awards to the Miss Illinois title. Now Mona has a shot at her destiny, but an unusual circumstance teams her with a soccer-playing, deep-dimpled little girl, Vanessa (Hallie Kate Eisenberg). A hilarious campaign of photo op mishaps ensues. At the moment of truth, both Mona and Vanessa find something entirely more BEAUTIFUL.

Sometimes you have to give up the life of your dreams, to discover the dream of your life... On her journey to become the next Miss American Miss, a young woman is forced to reevaluate her life's goal and, in the process, discovers what's really important and what it truly means to be... Beautiful.

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