A Beautiful Life
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DVD Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 30 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 1, 2011
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: Image Entertainment
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Angela Sarafayan, Debi Mazar, Dana Delany, Jesse Garcia & Rena Owen | |
Directed by | Alejandro Chomski | |
Screenwriting by | Wendy Hammond & Deborah Calla | |
Composition by | Ruy Folguera | |
Director of Photography: | Nancy Schreiber |
Entertainment Reviews:
23%
AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 149
[Lau] successfully balances satire and sentimentality in the first half, but loses his bearings in the sappier second part.
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NPR
Rating: 1/4 --
A Beautiful Life makes little attempt to be credible or original. And the acting is poor.
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New York Post
Rating: 1.5/4 --
Unfortunately, Lau throws in one too many wrinkles, squandering our empathy by forcing us through a long-winded relationship involving betrayal and illness.
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Boston Phoenix
Rating: .5/4 --
This intertwined tale of people struggling on society's fringe plays like bad community theater.
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Slant Magazine
Scream, smash, slap, cry, repeat. The only respite: fleeting scenes of Debi Mazar as a librarian, rocking a cardigan and reading glasses.
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Village Voice
Rating: 2.5/5 --
Whatever does work here - mainly a soulful performance by Liu Ye - ultimately gets lost in the excess.
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Los Angeles Times
Rating: 1.5/5 --
Set among the mean streets and meaner people of downtown Los Angeles, this laughably clichéd dive into sexual masochism and hardscrabble survival replaces story with outline and characters with place holders.
New York Times
Rating: 1/4 --
A Beautiful Life is nicely shot and features some appealing actors, and that's about it for the good news. The bad news is that the characters and situations are platitudes and the story is so heavy-handed that the film is hard to sit through.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Product Description:
Two lost souls find meaning in a world of chaos in this independent drama directed by Alejandro Chomski and adapted from the play by Wendy Hammond. Desperate teen Maggie (Angela Sarafayan) is on the run from her abusive father, and young immigrant David (Jesse Garcia) is scouring the streets of L.A. for his missing mother. When David and Maggie meet, their fractured lives finally start to make sense. A BEAUTIFUL LIFE also features Dana Delany and Debi Mazar.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 61,806
- UPC: 014381676624
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
- International Shipping: 1 item