The Object of Beauty
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Actor: Andie MacDowell, John Malkovich, Joss Ackland, Lolita Davidovich, Rudi DaviesBrand: Lions Gate
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 103 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-06-18
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Lions Gate
Movie Reviews of The Object of Beauty
Movie Review: AN ADULT MOVIE WITHOUT CRASHES AND GUNS!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I was pleasantly surprised by this not well-known gem. Couldn't sleep so I began watching on cable about 2:AM and couldn't turn it off. Was totally enrapt by this story of two pretensious and carefree snobs who don't have enough sense to secure a valuable sculpture by Henry Moore. She (Andie) needed to be reminded at every turn that assets and money were her entire world, so the statue was left on a hotel dresser as her safety blanket, but when the object of beauty was thought to be forever lost she actually began to show feelings for her lover of two years. She was more than her persona. These two seemingly diehard capitalistic work-horses actually did care about more than $$$. The acting was outstanding and the anti-hero deaf-mute maid and her brothers entourage added a needed contrast, a raw edge of delight.
Summary of The Object of Beauty
OBJECT BEAUTY - DVD MovieThe director Michael Lindsay-Hogg has a name that sounds British despite the fact that he is a New Yorker by birth. Maybe that association derives from the fact that he's primarily helmed television films--segments of Brideshead Revisited, for example, as well as a pile of music videos for English bands like the Who and the Rolling Stones. One of his few ventures into feature filmmaking (another was the little-seen Frankie Starlight) is the 1990 film The Object of Beauty, which also looks, sounds, and feels British in sensibility. The film is set in a tony London hotel, the weather is England-dreary, and the clothes (when the actors are wearing them) are tweedish and woolly in appearance. And the story is essentially repressed and internal save for the brash American performances of John Malkovich and Andie MacDowell, who play a couple living way above their limited financial means. When Jake (Malkovich) bottoms out in a business deal, he urges Tina (MacDowell) to sell her little Henry Moore sculpture, an object of great beauty. Such beauty, in fact, that a young mute hotel maid decides to steal it for her own. The actress Rudi Davies, who plays the maid, steals more than the Moore, however. She sneaks the film out from under Malkovich and MacDowell, who was just coming off of her sex, lies, and videotape acclaim, and who is quite good here as well. The Object of Beauty is too subtle in its message--Jake and Tina lose their last monetary chance and in penury begin to discover who they are as people--to let us care about such a pouty pair, and the "hilarious mix-ups and mayhem" that the film promises are, in actuality, tame and trite. --Paula Nechak
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