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Thursday, February 22,1996 New movie Timothy Hutton (L) and Annabeth i/fi//7S/ gMfJMf REACTION! WHincmnc mciniuan aiau writer BEAUTIFUL GIRLS (out of four stars) I have to admit I am a person whose soul was forever marked by "The Outsiders," such that whenever a new movie with Matt Dillon comes out, I have to see it. Okay, maybe it wasn't my soul that was marked but my pituitary gland. But you don't have to be a Matt Dillon fen to want to see Director Ted Demme's new movie "Beautiful Girls." You could be an Uma Thurman fen, or a Rosie ODonnell fan, or a Timothy Hutton fan. (Does he really have any?) Or maybe you're a fan of MIRAMAX films in general, since that studio has a habit of putting out really good movies like "Cinema Paradiso," "Drugstore Cowboy," "Pulp Fiction," and "Resevoir Dogs." The name "Beautiful Girls" is somewhat misleading since the heart of the story is seen from a male perspective. Willy, played by Timothy Hutton, is a piano player in a tiki lounge in New York City, the only one of his high school mmmM\ "M>UB CHUS STi RUSS BAL Featuring: a Blue Sky print Perception Kayal Exchange a day Sinner! tnnthnlf h Theater tickets ai jl. "It offers Beaul &,? " tflk' M ii &. IB il Gish (R) star in Ted Demme's "Bea buddies who has left their sleepj hometown. He returns to Knight's Ridge Mass., for their 10-year high schoo reunion and finds that his friends an having the same kind of difficulty he has in making decisions about the womer in their lives. A good part of the movie is a veiled philosophical discussion or the difference between growing old anc growing up. Paul, played by Michael Rapaport ("True Romance," "Mighty Aphrodite" is a guy so obsessed with supermodels that he names his Saint Bernard Elle Macphereson. He calls his girlfriend a hypocrite when she dumps him for a meat-cutter because she's vegetarian. Of all the characters, Paul seems to see his situation in the most desperate terms, ever developing a theory that a beautiful girl brings promise and hope to a crappj life. Rosie ODonnell's character hits the nail on the head when she says the reason Paul or any other guy can'1 commit is that they think one of the Penthouse models is always waiting just around the corner. Matt Dillon is Tommy, "Birdman,' who was the king of the hill in high school but has just come to the realization H|H|I i J / y ffiSw ^-^h v y//^ ' &'' ELL H LRO 7:30 pm of the Horseshoe k plus paddles with John Palms iy Brad Scott i mmam ii ann lid MUln MUKt! El tiful surprise Photo special to The Gamecock utiful Girts." j that life has not turned out to be anything lil/o Vtn fl^AiirrUf if V\a Ua f?wan fn , ijjcvu 11u uiuuglit lb vyuu1u uc. 11C Hies KAJ 1 recapture some of his glory days by i sleeping with his high school girlfriend ; (Lauren Holly), even though it jeopardizes 1 the relationship he has with Sharon, ; played by Mira Sorvino, who was just i nominated for an Oscar as Best I Supporting Actress for her role in Woody Allen's new movie, "Mighty Aphrodite." , The most brilliant performance of ) the movie is given by the young Natalie 5 Portman ("The Professional"). She plays j Marty, Willy's 13-year-old neighbor, who makes the most penetrating and i poetic observations of human nature since Shakespeare. ; The thought of the kind of a woman l Marty will become mesmerizes Willy to i the point that he's actually jealous of I the now short and scrawny boys that r will get to be there when it happens. This unexpected love story that never ; really happens gives the film a nice slant 5 In life, it seems like the unexpected is t what usually comes along while we wait j for our expectations of life to fulfill , themselves ? but they don't. Life should be lived consciously, and ' the awakening that each of the characters i go through near the end of the film proves l that point. M QIISE OM FEB. 26 Sponsored ley Jfi BAPTIST STUDENT UNION I 799-3854 [ [ c. j?& Ji * f * Country Music's "Musician of tho Year," Mark O'Conn ftho Koger Cantor tonight at 7:30. O'Connor, who \ Olnastora and Stephen Paulus, has won "Musician of tho event are available at tho Coliseum box office, al the concert. Tickets cost $6 for students, $9 for senloj For more Information, contact Zane Knauss at 782-972' ^^^ MmuNHhI H'4 Jgjj^HH ^.... ^J||.iJ Way! ?? 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