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A grim,
gritty South London housing estate makes an unlikley
setting for a romantic fairy-tale, but Hetti MacDonald's
gay teenage love story all but brings it off.
Adapted by screenwriter Jonathan Harvey from his own
stage play, Beautiful Thing tells how teenage
loner Jamie falls for next-door neighbour Ste, one of
the tough kids who bullies him at school. Amazingly, he
finds his feelings reciprocated, and the two progress to
a tender, tentative affair.
Sidestepping conventional notions of working-class
homophobia, the film succeeds in presenting its central
relationship not as anything startlingly different, but
simply as a teenage romance--with all the joy and
heartbreak it implies--that happens to be between two
15-year-old guys.
Problems of brutality and deprivation are acknowledged
but never allowed to dominate, and under the influence
of love even the harsh walkways and terraces of the
estate take on a sunlit glow.
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Ratio: 16:9 Anamorphic W/S |
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Audio Tracks: Dolby Surround |
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Main
Language: English |
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Format: DVD 5 |
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