Here's a movie filled with good actors who elevate the caliber of a semi-good script. It perfectly evokes the small town group of buddies, and they are all sort of still living as kids. They all have nice girlfriends, but they have an unrealistic dream that some great beauty will come across some day. Because of this, they take what they have for granted, and almost lose it. It is only when one of the men (Tim Hutton) meets a 13-year-old neighbor girl (Natalie Portman) when he starts to realize the power of just a nice girl. It takes a while for this idea to seep into the mind of all the other men, but it eventually does so in clever and amusing ways. This is a good movie. However, it could have been a lot more, for the film tends to drop plot lines and draw meaning from metaphors that don't really fit. There's a lot to love though, and its a damn good holiday film. (It has that quality of people "finding" themselves).
Beautiful Girls: ★★★
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