SummaryA Beautiful Life tells a heartwrenching love story against all odds about the encounter of two drifting souls and their escape into the harsh corners of life trying to avoid their dark pasts. Escaping her abusive past, Maggie finds a shelter near Esther, a stripper with singing aspirations. After staying the night with Esther’s illegal immigrant ... Read More
Directed By:Alejandro Chomski
Written By:Wendy Hammond, Deborah Calla
A Beautiful Life
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13
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Metascore
Overwhelming Dislike
0% Positive
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14% Mixed
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86% Negative
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
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Clichéd and formulaic.
25
Makes little attempt to be credible or original. And the acting is poor.
25
The bad news is that the characters and situations are platitudes and the story is so heavy-handed that the film is hard to sit through.
20
The whole thing plays like a bad Equity-waiver one-act.
20
Misery pile-up.
10
This laughably clichéd dive into sexual masochism and hardscrabble survival replaces story with outline and characters with place holders.
10
A waste of a talented, earnest cast, this borderline offensive indie, set for an Oct. 2 limited release, shouldn't take up too much valuable theater space before fading away.
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Mar 14, 2012
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Um Ulrich, I would like to let you know that the reason it isn't exact is because some critic's scores are more important than others, therefore it is not an exact average.
Production Company:
- Calla Productions
- Bob Holof Productions
- New Films International
Release Date:Oct 2, 2009
Duration:1 h 21 m




























