Change Your Image
bridgerpict
Reviews
Beautiful Loser (2008)
Endearing, if odd take, on a familiar subject
the festival program description made it sound like a normal, everyday coming of age story with a group of friends who look back on life and wonder how it all went wrong. i don't want to spoil it, and the a lot of the movie is like that, but then again its not. but it worked for me, especially the spiritual scenes which were touching.
the acting is wonderful. with two actors for each main character (one a teenager, the counterpart around forty) the friendship between the 3 main characters was strong. you really felt they'd known each other all this time and it was nice how they looked after one another.
my favorite scenes were between young Reggie (Gordo from Lizzie Maguire) and Tracy, the love of his life, and way out of his league. He was a little obnoxious and sad, but always endearing. you do hope he wins her.