Beautiful Girls (film)

Beautiful Girls is a 1996 American romantic comedydrama film directed by Ted Demme from a screenplay written by Scott Rosenberg, starring Matt Dillon, Lauren Holly, Timothy Hutton, Rosie ODonnell, Martha Plimpton, Natalie Portman, Michael Rapaport, Mira Sorvino and Uma Thurman.

The band The Afghan Whigs has a cameo appearance in the film. Greg Dulli, the bands lead singer, was close friends with Ted Demme.Screenwriter Scott Rosenberg was living in Needham, MA, waiting to see if Disney would use his script for Con Air. He said in an interview, It was the worst winter ever in this small hometown. Snow plows were coming by, and I was just tired of writing these movies with people getting shot and killed. So I said, There is more action going on in my hometown with my friends dealing with the fact that they cannot deal with turningor with commitmentall that became Beautiful Girls. ........

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