Beautiful DVD 2000 Mindent a szépségért / Directed by Sally Field / Starring: Minnie Driver, Joey Lauren Adams, Hallie Kate, Kathleen Turner

UPC 5999883047187

MADE IN HUNGARY

REGION 2 PAL DVD

AUDIO: English 2.0 Hungarian 5.1, Hungarian 2.0

SUBTITLES: Hungarian

TOTAL RUNTIME: 104 MINUTES

English Summary:

Beautiful is a 2000 American comedy-drama film directed by Sally Field (in her feature film directorial debut), starring Minnie Driver and Hallie Eisenberg. The plot deals with the sacrifices that contestants in the Miss America pageant typically must make. The film was both a critical and a commercial failure.

Mona Hibbard (Minnie Driver) is a young woman from a troubled home who has one overarching goal: to become the winner of the Miss America pageant. Her mother is an alcoholic who graduates from berating her young daughter for not doing well in kids' pageants to declaring she will not provide any money or support for Mona if she keeps competing. Mona becomes best friends with Ruby Stilwell (Joey Lauren Adams), and Ruby's kind grandmother (Herta Ware) joins her sweet granddaughter to support Mona as she begins her steady rise through the beauty pageant ranks.

 Mona becomes pregnant, but, as women with children are ineligible for the MAM crown, Ruby selflessly agrees to raise Mona's daughter Vanessa (Hallie Kate Eisenberg) as her own daughter. Mona becomes colder and meaner as she gets closer to achieving her goal, whether she's sabotaging fellow contestant Joyce Perkins (Leslie Stefanson) on her routine and earning a lifelong enemy of an aspiring newscaster, or pawning all of her inconveniences onto Ruby while ignoring how obvious it is that Vanessa looks exactly like her – a path that leads to her victory in the Miss Illinois pageant. When Mona goes to tell her mom about it, she fends off the mom's gross, leering husband and is left hurt when she's told that it would take too much effort to attend the MAM pageant, at which point Vanessa defends Mona and Mona is bitterly relieved to be ejected from the unloving home she grew up in.

Hungarian Summary:

Mona szép lány, aki egész életét egy cél érdekében rendezi be: egyszer szépségkirálynő, Miss America akar lenni. Önzősége is ebből fakad, kevés barátja bírja ki éveken át sztárallúrjeit. Gyerekkori barátnője, Ruby nővérként dolgozik és Monában látja az ő elveszett sanszának kérpótlását. Mona gyermekét is sajátjaként neveli, hiszen a gyermekanyát kizárnák a versenyekről. A győzelem érdekében Mona nem riad vissza keményebb eszközöktől sem, de botrányaiból rendre kisegítik. Végre megnyeri a Miss Illinois címet, irány az álomverseny Amerika legszebb lányának címéért.

Cast / Szereplők:

• Minnie Driver as Mona Hibbard/Miss Illinois
• Joey Lauren Adams as Ruby Stilwell
• Hallie Kate Eisenberg as Vanessa
• Kathleen Turner as Verna Chickle
• Leslie Stefanson as Joyce Parkins
• Bridgette Wilson (Miss Teen USA 1990) as Miss Texas/Lorna Larkin
• Kathleen Robertson as Miss Tennessee/Wanda Love
• Michael McKean as Lance DeSalvo
• Gary Collins as Miss American Miss Pageant Host
• Linda Hart as Nedra Hibbard
• Chuti Tiu (Miss Illinois 1994, America's Junior Miss 1987) as Miss Hawaii
• Ali Landry (Miss USA 1996) as outgoing titleholder Belindy Lindbrook
• Jessica Collins (Miss New York Teen USA 1988) as Miss Lawrenceville, first runner-up at Miss Illinois
• Julie Condra as Miss Iowa
• Herta Ware as Clara
• Colleen Rennison as Mona, age 12
• Jacqueline Steiger as Ruby, age 12