Just watched a movie called Beautiful Girls (1996). It had some interesting stars in it. The one I was most surprised to see was a very young Natalie Portman. She plays a 13 year old girl. The neighbor of Timothy Hutton's father and brother.
It's one of those "high school reunion" movies where everyone has to reflect on their successes and failures and solve them by the end of the movie. However, this had some unexpected twists as well as some predictable moments. There are some moments in the movie that a very thought provoking and some of the really good lines of the characters are lost on the goofiness of the moment. Lots of good metaphors about growing up, maturing, saying good by to the past. Struggling with the future. Just one of "those kinds" of movies.
My only criticism is that the characters seemed a little old to be having some of the troubles they were having, but maybe in small town America, this is the norm.
The movie is set mostly in small town Minnesota with an opening scene in the obligatory New York City.
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