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故 事 大 綱

這 是 一 齣 有 關 選 美 的 喜 劇 --- 而 在 喜 劇 背 後 , 有 著 一 個 發 人 深 省 的 信 息 --- 透 過 女 主 角 畢 夢 娜 , 我 們 了 解 到 很 多 時 候 , 做 事 太 過 忠 於 自 己 , 太 過 隨 心 所 欲 , 最 後 付 出 的 , 可 能 是 迷 失 自 我 的 代 價 .

畢 夢 娜 ( 美 妮 哉 花 飾 ) 自 少 已 發 其 白 日 夢 , 希 望 能 有 朝 一 日 當 上 美 國 小 姐 , 而 她 的 好 友 露 比 ( 祖 兒 羅 倫 亞 當 斯 飾 ), 則 發 揮 其 聖 人 般 的 無 私 精 神 與 耐 力 , 一 直 待 在 夢 娜 身 邊 , 助 她 完 成 夢 想 。 露 比 不 僅 照 顧 夢 娜 , 更 認 作 夢 娜 私 生 女 雲 妮 莎 ( 荷 莉 姬 蒂 艾 森 堡 飾 ) 的 母 親 , 好 讓 這 位 好 友 能 繼 續 參 加 選 美 , 追 逐 夢 想 。

夢 娜 屢 敗 屢 戰 , 甚 至 為 了 實 現 夢 想 而 不 擇 手 段 。 到 了 廿 六 歲 那 年 , 她 終 於 嬴 得 伊 利 諾 州 小 姐 榮 銜 , 向 全 國 選 美 進 軍 。 此 時 由 於 露 比 惹 上 官 非 , 夢 娜 被 逼 與 女 兒 雲 妮 莎 朝 夕 相 對 , 最 後 更 得 帶 o 一 同 上 路 , 前 往 出 席 美 國 小 姐 選 美 決 賽 。 雲 妮 莎 雖 不 時 與 夢 娜 鬥 氣 , 但 她 始 終 是 夢 娜 最 忠 實 的 支 持 者 , 而 當 傳 媒 計 劃 在 決 賽 夜 [ 踢 爆 ] 夢 娜 的 秘 密 時 , 夢 娜 在 台 上 突 然 醒 悟 , 在 夢 想 與 親 情 母 愛 ?間 作 出 了 抉 擇 。

導 演 (Sally Field) 的 話

BEAUTIFUL 是 金 像 女 影 星 莎 莉 菲 (Sally Field) 首 次 執 導 演 筒 的 電 影 作 品 . 她 指 出 , BEAUTIFUL 是 一 部 突 出 的 荷 里 活 作 品 , 因 為 它 是 一 齣 徹 頭 徹 尾 的 女 性 喜 劇 。 『 在 荷 里 活 , 很 少 女 性 會 得 到 機 會 , 能 夠 同 時 兼 顧 品 味 與 喜 劇 效 果 的 演 出 。 很 多 時 候 , 大 家 看 到 的 , 是 一 名 女 演 員 發 揮 著 綠 葉 作 用 , 給 放 在 一 堆 有 趣 搞 笑 的 男 演 員 中 間 , 但 畢 夢 娜 卻 是 真 真 正 正 女 主 角 , 有 機 會 作 搞 笑 演 出 。 』

『 畢 夢 娜 是 那 種 觀 眾 在 大 銀 幕 上 不 常 見 的 角 色 --- 她 不 嘗 試 討 好 別 人 , 做 事 只 顧 自 己 。 她 內 心 憤 怒 , 但 同 時 卻 又 搞 笑 吸 引 , 你 很 難 在 其 他 荷 里 活 電 影 內 找 到 這 樣 的 角 色 。 』

『 美 麗 的 定 義 是 可 愛 , 是 社 會 替 我 們 界 定 何 謂 吸 引 的 外 表 , 但 這 兩 個 字 同 時 有 著 另 一 層 意 義 ： 當 一 些 東 西 在 閃 閃 發 光 , 是 活 生 生 且 正 確 的 , 你 也 會 用 上 美 麗 去 形 容 。 』

演 員 (Minnie Driver) 的 話 :

金 像 獎 提 名 影 星 美 妮 哉 花 (Minnie Driver) 與 導 演 莎 莉 菲 , 用 了 一 年 有 多 時 間 , 來 發 展 BEAUTIFUL 的 劇 本 。

『 我 從 沒 機 會 演 這 麼 一 個 犯 錯 屢 屢 , 但 同 時 卻 又 充 滿 娛 樂 性 的 失 敗 角 色 。 夢 娜 是 個 很 吸 引 的 角 色 , 她 作 出 很 多 很 壞 的 決 定 , 但 一 直 都 在 找 尋 方 法 去 填 補 內 心 的 缺 口 。 她 從 沒 想 過 雲 妮 莎 就 是 她 心 內 的 缺 口 。 她 打 從 心 底 裡 相 信 , 假 若 人 家 接 受 她 是 個 外 表 美 麗 的 人 , 那 麼 她 的 內 心 定 必 同 樣 美 麗 。 在 她 來 說 , 人 家 的 認 同 比 任 何 東 西 都 來 重 要 , 尤 其 當 她 放 棄 了 家 庭 , 認 為 後 者 沒 法 給 她 ?何 美 好 東 西 後 開 始 。 』

『 我 同 意 莎 莉 菲 所 講 , 假 如 你 認 真 對 待 人 生 一 些 荒 謬 事 情 時 , 事 情 就 會 變 得 很 搞 笑 。 夢 娜 當 然 不 會 認 為 選 美 搞 笑 , 當 她 發 現 那 名 要 在 超 級 市 場 內 生 小 孩 的 孕 婦 能 助 她 蓋 過 德 州 小 姐 的 捐 骨 髓 事 ?, 並 讓 她 有 機 會 登 上 選 美 會 通 訊 的 頭 條 新 聞 時 , 她 是 萬 二 分 的 認 真 . 而 我 就 是 用 這 種 態 度 去 演 繹 角 色 。 』

Synopsis

Sally Field makes her feature film directorial debut with a bold, female-powered comedy about the danger of losing your heart while attempting to follow it. BEAUTIFUL is the story of a woman hell-bent on rising above her unglamorous, unloved childhood, yet instead nearly mows down everything in her path.

Mona Hibbard (Academy Award nominee MINNIE DRIVER) steadily advances as an American beauty queen in spite of her less than congenial temperament. Her best friend from childhood, Ruby, (JOEY LAUREN ADAMS) has the patience of a saint, which is why shes the one person who is willing to help Mona pursue her ambition. Ruby even helps her to hide the secret that would completely derail Monas plan to capture the "Miss American Miss" title: an illegitimate daughter, Vanessa (HALLIE KATE EISENBERG).

Unwilling to give up or give in, Mona climbs her way up the pageant ladder on sheer will and hunger for victory. But as she arms herself to battle for the biggest title of her life, little Vanessas emergence as an ally and supporter forces Mona to question her entire strategy. With the media, her co-competitors and seemingly the whole world threatening her chance at the crown, this beauty queens greatest obstacle is that she is suddenly losing her killer instinct in favor of a maternal one.

About The Production

All God's children are not beautiful.
Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
- Fran Liebowitz

BEAUTIFUL is a wry comic tale about how making your dreams come true can sometimes ruin your life. It's the story of Mona Hibbard, a woman who is so fiercely determined to be absolutely irresistible that she becomes completely unbearable. It's also the story about the funny, hopeful and sometimes outrageous ways in which American notions of beauty and success conflict with how life and families really happen.

Academy Award-winning actress Sally Field, who has played some of the most memorable and indomitable women on celluloid, makes her feature film debut with BEAUTIFUL. Drawn by the scripts' irreverent depiction of a ruthlessly driven young woman who becomes a hero when she least expects it, Field also saw that BEAUTIFUL would bring to the fore something still rare in Hollywood: an audacious comedy that was distinctively female. "There are so few opportunities for a woman to boldly walk the edge of good taste and be truly funny," says Field. "You often see a woman in the center of a lot of funny men in the movies, but Mona Hibbard was obviously a chance for an actress to really take a chance and have a lot of fun."

From the start, Field's involvement drew attention to the project. "I don't think anyone else could have made this movie other than Sally," comments Kate Driver, who serves as producer of the film along with her sister Minnie. "She has a brilliant and very dark sense of humor, and she has the ability to get extraordinary performances out of actors. She has turned the movie into an exploration of that one elusive thing we all seek in one way or another: the real beauty of life."

The delightfully flawed central character of Mona Hibbard, who excels at achieving her goals but fails at personal relationships, captured Field's imagination: "She is a character you don't often see on screen, a woman who doesn't try to be nice, who's not playing by anybody's rules but her own. She's angry and funny and fascinating - and you so rarely get to see a female character like this."

Screenwriter Jon Bernstein's droll treatment of Mona's path to glory-- even the darker events of her journey-- impressed Field. "Ultimately, Mona gets stuck," continues Field. She's so determined to win, so caught up in her fantasy, that she can't see any of the real life that's happening to her. She's at risk of missing the things that are most human and most truly beautiful like family and love. Of course, Minnie Driver plays all this in a wonderfully comic way that makes it very entertaining at the same time that it's heartbreaking."

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Starring as Mona Hibbard is Academy Award nominee Minnie Driver. With this unusual character, Driver gets the opportunity to show off her darker side with a comically acidic yet poignant portrait of a woman who replaces the missing pieces in her life with the validation of beauty pageant crowns. Driver found Mona to be one of the richest characters she'd encountered in a script, and she worked with Sally Field and her sister Kate Driver for over a year in development.

"When I read the script, I thought immediately that we've never seen Minnie in this kind of comic role, playing a brazenly funny character who is tempered by incredible emotion," comments Kate Driver. "The story is about real issues that everybody wrestles with but Mona Hibbard handles it in her own unique way. At times what she does is ugly, but Minnie assures that ultimately the character's underlying likeability shines through."

"I've never had the chance to play a character that has such an abundance of wonderfully human faults, who is so fallible, so funny and sad at the same time," says Minnie Driver. "Mona is an intriguing character because she makes really, really bad

choices. She's making it up as she goes along. She's looking for a way to fill the holes inside her and when she sits there with her tinfoil crown on, she thinks that's going to do it. It never occurs to her that Vanessa could have anything to do with it. She truly believes that if she is accepted as an outwardly beautiful person, she will feel inwardly beautiful. And that matters to her more than anything, especially since she has given up on getting anything positive from her family."

Driver opted to play the role with a die-hard seriousness that belies the underlying comedy of the character. "I agree with Sally who is always pointing out that if you're absolutely truthful in a ridiculous situation, that's what is funny," explains Driver. "Mona of course doesn't think any of the things that happen in the pageants are funny. When a pregnant woman giving birth in the supermarket is her opportunity to knock Miss Texas' bone marrow transplant out of the headlines, it's dead serious to Mona, so that's the way I play it."

Sally Field sees Minnie Driver as "a naturally comedic person" and sometimes the director enjoyed just sitting back and watching her take the character in unexpected directions. "Part of the real fun of this production, was just seeing where Mona Hibbard would go inside the beautiful body of Minnie Driver," says Field. "It was just a joy to see how adroit and facile she is as an actor and most wonderfully as a physical comedian."

In preparation for her role, Driver concentrated not only on Mona's inner turmoil but her outer packaging. "I thought a lot about her physical appearance," explains Driver, "because it so important to her. I realized that this is not necessarily the most naturally beautiful girl in the world, but she has willed herself to be beautiful. She is exceptional at putting herself together, with her hair as perfect as it can possibly be, her clothes as good as she can afford, her makeup as practiced as she could. It's all very big, because that's the way Mona thinks. But eventually, the mask cracks before your eyes - and Mona has to face the truth about herself."

Perhaps the most exciting aspect of taking on BEAUTIFUL for Driver was the chance to work with Sally Field as a director. "It's like taking a personal master class on acting for me, especially because I have always loved the work she has as done as an actor," states Driver. "We work in very similar ways, so I think she recognizes that in me and knows how to get a performance out of me. She's entirely devoted to serving the story and never her ego as director, which is a rare, creative and wonderfully inspiring thing."

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Standing outside Mona Hibbard's pageant universe is her one last link to the real world: her life-long friend, first official costume-designer and surrogate mother to Vanessa, Ruby, who is played by Joey Lauren Adams. Adams sees her character as a sort of "serial nurturer" who is drawn even at a very young age to Mona Hibbard's glaring need. "Ruby gets her satisfaction from helping people and that nurturing side of her is satisfied by her friendship with Mona, not to mention Vanessa," notes Adams. "I think Ruby also is the one person who really knows where Mona comes from and understands why she wants to win so badly."

One of the most exciting challenges of Adams' role was portraying the ins and outs of a close female friendship - albeit a dysfunctional one. "I've always done movies where I'm some guy's girlfriend, so it was really refreshing to explore a friendship rather than a romantic relationship," Adams comments.

Field echos Adams' observation, "I think of BEAUTIFUL as being a love story, not between a man and a woman, but about the transforming power of love between friends and family."

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Of course one of the women acting alongside Adams was just seven years old - rising star Hallie Kate Eisenberg who plays the clever, knowing Vanessa, who also has an unexpected impact on Mona Hibbard's dreams. Eisenberg plays Vanessa as a child that in some ways is wiser and savvier than her own mother.

Minnie Driver says of Eisenberg's unusual sophistication: "She's seven years old but sometimes it seems like she's seventy. She has amazing focus and is amazingly unbothered by anything. It's also remarkable to me how in touch she is with her emotions at such a young age. She's not afraid of going to difficult places - she just jumps right in."

Like others in the cast, Eisenberg was drawn by the chance to work with Sally Field - but in her case, it was because Field starred in the very first movie she remembers seeing: Forrest Gump. "I also think because she was an actress all her life that makes her one of the best directors," says Eisenberg. "She knows what it's like, she knows how it feels."

But most of all, Eisenberg, who reads her own scripts along with her parents, chose this one for the story which, she says, she found "beautiful." "I liked my very special relationship with Minnie Driver," she adds. "It's interesting because Vanessa doesn't like her at first but the more she gets to know her the more she wants to help her make her dreams come true."

For Sally Field, it was important to remember Eisenberg's true age, despite her remarkable surface maturity. "She really is just a kid," observes Field. "She's a delightful, wonderful kid who works very hard, but the good news is she's just a little girl who thinks this is all a lot of fun. Nothing can be more enchanting than that."

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Also joining the cast is Kathleen Turner, who adds another role to her repertoire as Verna Chickle, a former beauty queen and local talent trainer who teaches young woman to wave, pivot and thrust in just the right way. Turner was drawn in by the bold humor and a story "that shows the shocking extremes a woman will go to in her life to achieve the ends of beauty."

Turner was also compelled by Sally Field's uniquely humane approach to the subject. "Sally has a great combination of being very down to earth and also having a wonderful sense of the ridiculous," the actress comments. "She finds the flaws, the cracks in the facade that are really funny, but not malicious. She was an excellent choice to direct this and it seems to just come naturally to her."

Mona Hibbard's arch nemesis, the snooping reporter Joyce Perkins, is played by Leslie Stefanson who liked that "you never knew what was going to happen" in the story. "It would just keep getting darker and funnier, but kind of touching as well," recalls Stefanson. "I knew it would be great fun."

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Once Sally Field kicked off the development process on BEAUTIFUL, she began researching the backdrop for her story- the beauty pageant world. Having been the star of "The Flying Nun" and "Gidget" during the dawn of sex, drugs, and rock and roll in the 60s gave Field a unique perspective to examine a phenomenon that many consider outmoded. She had heard the tales of pasted-on dresses and Vaseline-covered teeth, but was more curious about the stories of impoverished young women who escaped their backgrounds by winning pageants. "The beauty pageant subculture is truly an American phenomenon," says Field. "The funny thing is a lot of people in this country have a kind of tongue-in-cheek attitude about them, and yet we all still find ourselves watching."

Still, all the research never quite reconciled Field's two opposing feelings about the competitions. She notes: "On the one hand, it still seems incredible to me that in this day and age we're still rating women on their physical appearance. On the other hand, a lot of young women I talked to really found opportunity they would never have through the pageants. Many of them said this was the only way they could get an education and felt they had no other hope for getting that kind of money. Still, it seems very ironic that one of this country's largest scholarship programs for women's education is beauty pageants."

Since there are few beauty pageants in her native England, Driver researched the phenomenon with a passion borne out of awed curiosity and incredulity. What she found, like Sally Field, was a strange, insular world that ranges from the sublime to the

bizarre, from helping women escape desperate backgrounds to becoming a haven for back-stabbing and bad behavior. "I became super-fascinated with the whole thing," she admits. "I'd be on the Internet for hours checking out different beauty pageant sites. The whole thing was much broader than I imagined. It's a huge, far-reaching industry. I find it kind of wonderful, because once you're in that world, you subscribe fully to the belief of it."

Raised in Arkansas where watching beauty pageants was a southern tradition, Joey Lauren Adams admired the way in which the script avoided treating the pageants with extremes of biting satire. "It's a funny film, but it's not campy," she notes. "I mean there are some moments that are bizarre because this pageant world can be bizarre, but Sally really portrays it in a very real way. There's lots of humor but it also has a huge heart. When you least expect it you are moved and touched."

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Field had previously stepped behind the camera on two television productions, but she admits "this was much larger than anything I had ever done before." She continues: "I seemed to be cramming so many lessons into one production - working with children, doing musical numbers, taking on a comedy. But I love movie-making and I'm constantly fascinated by it, so this was a great opportunity for me."

The director brought on board a number of creative artists who helped to forge the visually dynamic pageant world. One of the most important aspects of pageants, and thus of BEAUTIFUL, is of course splashy, exuberant costumes.

Designer Chrisi Karvonides calls BEAUTIFUL a "costume designer's dream." Mona Hibbard's progression from homemade rags to haute couture fashions gave Karvonides a wonderful challenge. "It was a lot of fun to start off with twelve year-old Mona wearing thrift store chic, hand-painted, hideous stuff in hot pink and take that all the way through to her fuchsia beaded gown for the television pageant," says Karvonides.

Karvonides used some of the pageant world's most popular designers to keep Mona's and her competitors' looks completely authentic, including Steven Yearick,

Deborah's Pageant Wear and Tadashi. "We did tons of research on who makes clothes for pageants, how the girls pick what to wear, what colors they choose, how far they go and then we looked at thousands upon thousands of pictures," she explains.

For Mona's Miss Illinois dress, Karvonides even hired Pawnee Indian beaders to help put together an updated Powwow dress in blue and white, just the sort of slightly over-the-top outfit that draws attention in the pageant system. "The Pawnee Indians are from the Northern Lakes area and so it made sense for Mona to go with a Native American look, but we made it more couture, more evocative and sexy. We got the Powwow beads from Illinois, had the bodice beaded in Los Angeles, and then we had Native Americans create a head-dress for her. It was a national effort," laughs Karvonides.

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Although the design details were vital to Sally Field, ultimately she was focused most intently on the performances. Her vast experience in front of the camera helped to inform her style behind it. "I just really know the process," says the actor-turned-director. "I know it so well it is almost like breathing for me. When I see an actor working, I know where they're headed and I might be able to say something that can trigger what they're looking for or help them feel their way into the right arena. In the end, to know what makes a moment happen is the key."

Field found the right group to turn that key. The production of BEAUTIFUL took on its own unusual atmosphere, with an atypical number of women behind and in front of the camera. "I mostly wanted people who are very good at their jobs," states Sally Field. "It was not about gender - there were plenty of men on the set as well - but I wanted a group that really connected to the story."

As Kate Driver notes, "Every woman on this set is wrestling with that elusive quality that everybody wants - beauty. We deal with it every day. It's proved to be a very interesting line between reality and the movies."

"The title is really interesting and ironic because it raises the issue: what do you consider beautiful," comments Minnie Driver. "I find I have certain ideals about it, but when it comes to myself, the rules change. We all lambaste ourselves if we don't think we're beautiful. The way Mona looks at it is if I can just get the outside right, if I can just

be the most beautiful girl, if someone just tells me I'm the Queen, then I will be happy. She builds herself up to the point where she believes she is absolutely the most exquisite creature on earth, but then you watch that crumble because it's not fortified with who the real Mona is."

Field concludes, "Beautiful is what is pretty…what society tells us is physically attractive, but it's also a word you use when something is glowing, when something is alive and just right. You say….BEAUTIFUL.

ABOUT THE CAST

Minnie Driver (Mona Hibbard)

Minnie Driver stars as the comically determined Mona Hibbard, an ambitious small-town beauty queen hiding a little secret that could lead to a big fall. One of Hollywood's most sought-after actors, Driver was the recipient of an Academy Award nomination and a Screen Actors Guild nomination for her charismatic performance in Good Will Hunting. Her diverse recent roles include the feature film version of Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband, and voice-overs for the Disney film Tarzan and the Japanese animated classic Princess Mononoke.

Driver first came to the attention of audiences and critics alike for her winning performance in Circle of Friends in which she starred with Chris O'Donnell. She went on to star in Stanley Tucci's acclaimed ensemble drama Big Night; in Barry Levinson's Sleepers co-starring Brad Pitt, Robert DeNiro and Dustin Hoffman; in the critically praised dark comedy Grosse Pointe Blank with John Cusack; and in the period love story The Governess. Other film credits include the James Bond thriller Goldeneye, That Sunday, Zebra Man, God on the Rocks and Hard Rain.

Driver recently starred in the sophisticated romantic comedy Return To Me opposite David Duchovny. Also forthcoming is the independent comedy High Heels and Lowlifes.

Joey Lauren Adams (Ruby)

Joey Lauren Adams portrays Ruby, Mona Hibbard's closest friend and staunch ally. Adams' combination of raw talent, unpredictable delivery and comic timing have made her an actress to watch. Not content to portray the same character over and over, her screen portrayals reveal a wide range.

Most recently Adams starred opposite Adam Sandler in Big Daddy and before that in Kevin Smith's Chasing Amy, for which she garnered a Golden Globe nomination. Other memorable roles include Nora Ephron's box-office smash Michael, Richard Linklater's cult classic Dazed and Confused and Kevin Smith's Mallrats.

Adams recently completed roles in James Toback's Harvard Man, which explores what young people go through on their quest for their own identity against a background of love, sex, basketball, crime and experimentation and in In the Shadows. In this film, she plays a doctor, who falls in love with a hit man, who is sent to Hollywood to take the life of a stunt man - her father. Matthew Modine, James Caan and Cuba Gooding Jr. round out the cast. Adams will next be seen starring in Shirley Maclaine's directorial debut Bruno, the story of a 9 year-old spelling bee champion along with Kathy Bates and Gary Sinise.

The Arkansas native came to Los Angeles in 1989. She found work early on television making television history as the woman who took Bud Bundy's virginity on "Married . . . With Children."

Adams also starred in a short film shown at the Sundance Film Festival titled Strange Habit, in which she played a young woman suffering from bulimia. The film later aired on MTV.

Adams is a published poet and writes Country Western Blues music in her spare time.

Hallie Kate Eisenberg (Vanessa)

Eight year-old Hallie Kate Eisenberg stars as Vanessa, the feisty little girl who inspires Mona Hibbard to give her all for the crown of Miss American Miss. Miss Eisenberg has quickly become one of the leading stars of her new generation. Since debuting as Marie in Paulie, Hallie portrayed Barbara in the academy award nominated film, The Insider, and Little Miss in Bicentennial Man. Hallie has also appeared in three

television movies, as Eleanor in "Nicholas' Gift," Josie in "Blue Moon" Jenny in "Swing Vote", and as Abby in the short film "A Little Inside" which aired on Lifetime.

She recently completed production for the upcoming ABC/Disney movie, "The Miracle Worker," in which she stars in the role of Helen Keller. Hallie's commercials include The Independent Film Channel promos (as the "hot, young Indy director, Christie") and, of course, playing the little girl in the Pepsi-Cola campaign. Hallie can also be seen in the promos for the upcoming Nickelodeon feature "Rugrats in Paris." Hallie served as the Entertainment Tonight correspondent for the Gotham Awards, Independent Spirit Awards, Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards, and the EMMY's. When not acting, Hallie loves to dance (she takes tap, ballet, and jazz), sing, rollerblade, write stories, and play with friends.

Kathleen Turner (Verna Chickle)

Kathleen Turner plays Verna Chickle, a beauty pageant expert who guides young girls through the pageant world. Turner made her film debut opposite William Hurt in Lawrence Kasdan's Body Heat, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination for New Star of the Year and a British Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Following this debut were starring roles in The Man With Two Brains with Steve Martin, Crimes of Passion, and the extremely successful Romancing The Stone for which she received the Golden Globe and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress. The special pairing of Turner and Douglas was repeated in the sequel, The Jewel Of The Nile.

Turner then starred in Francis Ford Coppola's Peggy Sue Got Married, for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress, a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress, and the National Board of Review Award for Best Actress. Her starring role in John Huston's Prizzi's Honor, opposite Angela Huston and Jack Nicholson, earned her the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress.

Turner's extensive film credits also include The War Of The Roses, Switching Channels, V.I. Warshawski, Undercover Blues, House Of Cards, Serial Mom, Moonlight And Valentino, The Accidental Tourist, and Turner's standout performance as the sultry voice of Jessica Rabbit in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

In the last several years, Turner has appeared in several noted theatrical productions and received rave reviews and broke box-office records starring in the stage production of "The Graduate," playing the role of Mrs. Robinson. She also starred as Tallulah Bankhead in the one-woman show "Tallulah," which she plans to tour later this year in the U.S. and take to Broadway in the Spring of 2001. Turner has starred on Broadway in "Indiscretions," "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," and "Gemini."

She was recently seen in The Virgin Suicides and The Real Blonde, and has completed work on The Prince of Central Park and Love And Action In Chicago.

Leslie Stefanson (Joyce Parkins)

Inquiring reporter Joyce Parkins, who seems to have special knowledge about Mona Hibbard, is played by Leslie Stefanson. Stefanson was most recently seen opposite John Travolta in The General's Daughter, and she has also had roles in James L. Brooks' multi-Oscar winning film As Good As It Gets, Barbra Streisand's The Mirror Has Two Faces, the independent film Delivered, and the family film Flubber with Robin Williams. Her other feature film credits include An Alan Smithee Film.

Upcoming films include the NBC miniseries "Jackie, Ethel, Joan: Women of Camelot," opposite Lauren Holly and Jill Hennessey, Desert Saints with Kiefer Sutherland, and Unbreakable with Bruce Willis and director M. Night Shymalan.

Bridgette Wilson (Lorna, Miss Texas)

Bridgette Wilson plays Miss Texas, the front-runner and rival of Mona Hibbard, played by Minnie Driver, for the Miss American Miss title. Wilson will soon be seen in another Destination Films project, Buying The Cow, in which she stars opposite Jerry O'Connell and is slated for a December release. Wilson most recently completed filming the Sony feature The Wedding Planner, co-starring with Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Lopez.

An Oregon native, Wilson began her acting career on the daytime serial, "Santa Barbara." Immediately following her departure from "Santa Barbara," Wilson was cast for the female role in Last Action Hero, in which she performed all of her own stunts. She has played a variety of lead roles in such films as Love Stinks, House on Haunted Hill, The Visitors, The Real Blonde, Nevada, I Know What You Did Last Summer, The Suburbans, Nixon, Higher Learning, Unhook The Stars, Mortal Kombat, and Billy Madison.

Wilson is also an accomplished singer and songwriter, boasting two best-selling albums in the Orient.

Kathleen Robertson (Wanda Love, Miss Tennessee)

As Miss Tennessee, Kathleen Robertson plays a determined contender for the Miss American Miss crown. Robertson is currently at work opposite Bill Murray, James Spader and Jay Mohr in John McNaughton's comedy Investigating Sex. She also recently completed a starring role opposite Mark Ruffallo in XX/XY. Next she will portray the notorious Canadian murderer Evelyn Dick in the film Torso.

Ali Landry (Belindy, Miss American Miss)

Ali Landry plays the reigning Miss American Miss in BEAUTIFUL. Landry can currently be seen co-hosting the weekly music/talk show "Farm Club.com" which airs on the USA network. She also has a recurring role on the WB's "Felicity." Landry gained firsthand knowledge of the pageant world when she won the 1996 Miss USA title. In 1998, People Magazine named Landry one of the "50 Most Beautiful People," and she was again in the national spotlight during the 1998 Super Bowl telecast when she was featured in a commercial for Doritos chips.

A trained dancer in jazz, tap and ballet of 15 years, Landry also enjoys kickboxing and gymnastics.

ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS

Sally Field (Director)

Sally Field is a two-time Academy Award-winner for her performances in Places In The Heart and Norma Rae. She received an Emmy Award for her title role as a young woman with multiple personalities in the four-hour television special Sybil with Joanne Woodward.

BEAUTIFUL is Field's feature directorial debut. Previously, she directed "The Christmas Tree," a two-hour ABC telefilm starring Julie Harris, which aired in December of 1996. She also served as Executive Producer and shared writing credit on this project based on Julie Salamon's novel of the same name. In addition, she directed an episode of Tom Hanks' epic miniseries "From The Earth To The Moon" for HBO. Her episode, titled The Original Wives Club, dealt with the experiences of the astronauts wives.

Field has been nominated for an Emmy Award for her role in Showtime's fall release, "A Cooler Climate," in which she starred as a wealthy wife turned impoverished divorcee who finds work as a maid. Prior to that, she appeared in "A Woman Of Independent Means," a six-hour miniseries for NBC. The telefilm marked Sally's return to television after a twenty-year absence, not only as an actor, but as a co-producer as well, and earned Field both Emmy and Golden Globe nominations. Field will soon appear in TNT's adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic "David Copperfield." 　

She was last seen in the feature film An Eye For An Eye, directed by John Schlesinger for Paramount Pictures. Prior to that, she was Tom Hanks' mother in the hugely successful Forrest Gump, and Robin Williams' ex-wife in Mrs. Doubtfire. Other features include: Soapdish, Not Without My Daughter, Steel Magnolias, Surrender, Punchline, Murphy's Romance (the latter two produced by Field's production company, Fogwood Films), Kiss Me Goodbye, Absence of Malice, Backroads, The End, Hooper, Heroes and Smokey And The Bandit Parts I and II.

Her first major film was Stay Hungry starring Jeff Bridges and Arnold Schwarzengger.

Born in Pasadena, California, and raised in a show business family, Field was enrolled in acting classes at Columbia Pictures when she was selected from 150 finalists to star in the television series, "Gidget." She went on to star in the series "The Flying Nun" and "The Girl With Something Extra."

Chrisi Karvonides Dushenko (Costume Designer)

Chrisi Karvonides created 30 different looks for Minnie Driver's character, Mona, which reflect the character's transition as she comes of age in the pageant world. BEAUTIFUL marks the second time that Karvonides Dushenko has worked with director Sally Field. Their first collaboration was on Sally's television directorial debut, Tom Hanks' HBO mini-series "From the Earth to the Moon."

Karvonides Dushenko has also designed costumes for such films as Glass House, Grand Avenue, and numerous theatrical productions including the Broadway production of "Two Trains Running."

John Frizzell (Composer/Co-Songwriter)

At age 34, John Frizzell has already established himself as a distinguished force in film music. Frizzell's credits include Dante's Peak, for which he received a 1998 ASCAP Film & Television Award. In addition, he has scored major motion pictures such as Alien Resurrection, Jane Austen's Mafia!, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, Office Space, Beavis and Butthead Do America and Teaching Mrs. Tingle.

His television credits include "Undertow," "Red Ribbon Blues," "Keys," and HBO's "Crime of the Century." Frizzell's most recent projects include the upcoming comedy The White River Kid, and Lockdown. He is currently scoring TNT's "James Dean: An Invented Life."

Debra Neil-Fisher (Editor)

Debra Neil-Fisher has become an established professional, having worked with many of Hollywood's leading filmmakers. Her extensive list of film credits include the boxoffice hits, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Up Close and Personal, Fried Green Tomatoes and the Academy Award winning short film, Ray's Male Heterosexual Dance Hall. In addition to BEAUTIFUL, Neil-Fisher has worked on Teaching Mrs. Tingle, Dear God and Black Dog.

Her television credits include "The Amy Fisher Story," "Desperate Choices: To Save My Child," "Breaking Point," "The Case of the Hillside Stranglers" and "Heat Wave," which won her a Cable Ace Award.

Charles Breen (Production Designer)

After studying architecture at Harvard and Cranbrook, the world-renowned

art and design school, Breen moved to California and began his career in the business as an Art Director. He has worked with some of the best directors in Hollywood including Ridley Scott, Mike Nichols, Richard Attenborough and Walter Hill. In addition, he worked with Barry Levinson on Disclosure, Clint Eastwood on The Bridges Of Madison County and William Friedkin on Jade.

The jump from Art Director to Production Designer found him designing the controversial, yet critically acclaimed film, Your Friends & Neighbors for director Neil LaBute.

Charles was nominated for an Emmy for Best Art Direction on HBO's "Weapons Of Mass Distraction." He was also inducted into the Art Director Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and sits on its Executive Committee. His recent film projects include the thriller Urban Legend, She's All That and Nurse Betty, which was directed by Neil LaBute. He also designed The Shrink Is In for director Richard Benjamin starring Courtney Cox and David Arquette.

Robert Yeoman (Director of Photography)

In the business for nearly three decades, Robert Yeoman has an impressive list of cinematography credits to his name. In 1990 he won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography in Drugstore Cowboy. His other projects include Johnny Be Good, Permanent Midnight, Rushmore, Dogma, Bottle Rocket and Down To You and the upcoming Double Whammy.

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