Beautiful People

1999 "A comic collision of chaos and coincidence"
6.7| 1h47m| R| en| More Info
Released: 16 September 1999 Released
Producted By: Arts Council of England
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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.

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imizrahi2002 boring? too little imagination? sloppy?well...there's always hope for people like you...trouble is, anyone can offer an opinion, right?there's one(and this is only one part)where someone is thinking they're going to a soccer match in another country and wind up waking up dodging bullets and shrapnel in bosnia... sloppy? yes...all that blood and guts tends to get that way... imaginative? you decide... boring? i'm sorry, i'm having trouble typing i'm laughing so hard...this was one of THE most unexpected gems i've ever stumbled upon... what a RANGE of humanity displayed... look, if you're a kid, don't see it...see whatever before you waste space condemning a movie you haven't the experience to process... and you, frustrated woodlawn hills/la person in the beginning of the reviews? i bet you've had a LOT of success there in LALA...makes you the expert/authoritative reviewer, right? gods help us from frustrated no talents who pick up a pen to pull others down to their level... as if that's possible with a film like this... people...see this film if you've got half a soul...
mahajanssen This film highlights some of the problems faced by former Yugoslav refugees trying to start a new life in Britain. There are some light hearted moments like when a Serb and a Croat who were neighbours in their former homeland fight with each other and end up next to each other in the hospital (highlighting the basis of the Yugoslav war). Some of the more common refugee problems are also highlighted (you'd have to watch to find out). There is hardly any intensity in the movie but the story is still rather well told.
John-196 I had to lower my rating of this movie to a 4 due to the terrible sound track. I'm pretty sure it was not a problem with me or the tape, because some actors and the sound track sounded great. But most of the actors voices were distorted or garbled beyond recognition, especially for non-brits.There are plenty of cute little twists that would make this an enjoyable movie - ending up in Bosnia by mistake is great - but much of the humor was lost in the sound.
cpu-4 Beautiful People doesn't have a very intelligent plot and the acting (perhaps as a result) is mediocre at best. The whole movie also comes across as being a bit forced.It deals with the conflict between Serbs and Kroats, but the acting and little jokes are just too clumsy and unsophisticated to really be taken seriously... because there *are* quite a few statements that the director seems to want to come across it fails to be amusing or entertaining as well. Having said that, there is one amusing part where an English hooligan ends up in the war. If the director had gone for more of similar absurdities and for less rather blunt moral statements the result would have had more impact IMO.