What The Critics Say

Beautiful

Sally Field's directorial debut casts Minnie Driver as a small-town girl making her way through the beauty pageant circuit, all the while hiding a daughter born out of wedlock. Also starring Hallie Katie Eisenberg, Joey Lauren Adams and Kathleen Turner.

Kirk Honeycutt

Hollywood Reporter

'There are game performances . . . but the punchless nature of the film, which looks and acts like a comedy but contains very few laughs, doesn't bode well for the box office. And in a carry-over from [director Sally] Field's Oscar acceptance speech, she really wants us to like her movie, so she pushes every button available to her for a sentimental and unconvincing climax.'

Kevin Thomas