| Beautiful Thing [DVD] | ![Beautiful Thing [DVD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51SfaVEKsWL._SL75_.jpg) | Director: Hettie Macdonald Actors: Meera Syal, Martin Walsh, Steven Martin, Andrew Fraser, John Savage Studio: Film 4 Category: DVD
List Price: £15.99 Buy New: £3.70 as of 22/5/2012 07:31 CDT details You Save: £12.29 (77%)
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Seller: twentyfiveorless Sales Rank: 4,153
Format: PAL, Anamorphic, Colour Language: English (Original Language) Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Region: 2 Discs: 1 Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.78:1 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 85 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5 Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 6867449002491 EAN: 6867449002491 ASIN: B000S399F6
Release Date: September 17, 2007 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Amazon.co.uk Review 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. --Philip Kemp
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