Today’s movie (2): Beautiful

I wonder if I watched the same move as James Berardinelli, who called the film “a wretchedly insipid effort that makes a mockery of its name.” How can any film with both Minnie Driver and Joey Lauren Adams be that bad? Okay, the story is a little implausible and how anyone can think Adams could play the schlumpy best friend is a mystery to me. I admit that Sally Field doesn’t do the movie any favors in her directorial debut, though. At least Andy Klein of New Times L.A. agrees with me.