Beautiful Girls

Life in the middle of nowhere. Thirty-somethings come together for their high school reunion. Some have gone on to greener pastures but most are still waiting for the rest of their lives to begin. That debate is coming to a head with a few men who are in relationships but cannot fully give themselves up to it. They live with the idea that someone better is bound to come. The film Beautiful Girls shows them as near middle aged youths who still go to the bars and still have good times like it's the old days. The film is very funny and down to earth with the portrait. There is no exagerration. It also leads to the end revelations with little hoakiness. The 'beautiful girls' are really the girls around them the whole time. Their denial of age kept them from seeing that. The film is set in a small winter town with idiotic fun guys. It's hard for me not to sympathize or relate to the characters. Sometimes the subject of a film is bigger than any comment you can make and you have to give in to the peaceful memories of yourself. I definitely am not middle aged yet, but I am from this same environment and I have not grown up any quicker than these guys.