SummaryBeauty Is Embarrassing chronicles the vaulted highs and the crushing lows of a commercial artist struggling to find peace and balance between his work and his art. Acting as his own narrator, Wayne guides us through his life using moments from his latest creation: a hilarious, biographical one-man show. The pieces are drawn from performances at v... Read More
Directed By:Neil Berkeley
Written By:Neil Berkeley, Chris Bradley, Kevin Klauber
Beauty Is Embarrassing
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
70% Positive
7 Reviews
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30% Mixed
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Sep 6, 2012
90
The creativity grows like kudzu in Beauty Is Embarrassing, Neil Berkeley's enlightening and often hilarious portrait of the Los Angeles artist Wayne White. And it yields a thousand blossoms.
Oct 19, 2012
75
Beauty Is Embarrassing stays true to White's own exacting standards: It's thoughtful, skillfully executed and pure pop pleasure, from start to finish.
Sep 7, 2012
75
Those with a high tolerance for the ultimate four-letter word, and a love for eccentrics, will be entertained by both White and his art.
Sep 8, 2012
70
As one observer here aptly - and non-hyperbolically - sums it up, White is "a founding father of the current state of pop art."
Sep 5, 2012
60
A breezily entertaining profile of painter, puppeteer and performer Wayne White, Beauty Is Embarrassing places the kindhearted, foulmouthed subject front and center.
Oct 18, 2012
50
An amiable if not especially urgent celebration of the life and work of Wayne White.
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Production Company:
- Future You Media
- Eddie Schmidt Productions
- Tremolo Productions
Release Date:Sep 7, 2012
Duration:1 h 28 m
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Awards
Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 2 Nominations
Chlotrudis Awards
• 1 Nomination
SXSW Film Festival
• 1 Nomination




























