Burdened with so many poky scenes that it approaches the level of the distributor's "Drowning Mona" and "Whipped," both candidates for the year's worst.
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San Francisco ExaminerG. Allen Johnson
San Francisco ExaminerG. Allen Johnson
SORRY, SALLY. I didn't like it. I really didn't like it.
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Chicago ReaderTed Shen
Chicago ReaderTed Shen
Sally Field's direction is pedestrian, though she does manage to get winning performances out of Driver and Eisenberg.
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San Francisco ChroniclePeter Stack
San Francisco ChroniclePeter Stack
(Driver) is stuck in a mess of a movie that suffers from awkward writing, a plot with major disconnects in plausibility, an annoyingly screechy kid character and cheesy production values.
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Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
It's a movie with so many inconsistencies, improbabilities, unanswered questions and unfinished characters that we have to suspend not only disbelief but also intelligence.
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L.A. WeeklyElla Taylor
L.A. WeeklyElla Taylor
Made with the slick, shorthand complacency of a TV movie, Beautiful is so overstuffed with contrivance, you can hardly breathe.
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VarietyEmanuel Levy
VarietyEmanuel Levy
There's no particular reason to see this disappointingly trivial picture on the bigscreen.