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Becca appears to have it all: the hunky boyfriend who dotes on her (and Omigahd he proposed!); a chandelier-shattering voice that goes down well at the local bar; a great job teaching chill-drenn, validated by the 'Teacher of the Year' award; and an adoring family and friends. Should be enough for someone who's essentially a loud, large, brassy, not very pretty Jewish princess.

But no - a skinny, classically good-looking blonde shiksa disses her looks, and so Becca has to beat her at one game she's utterly ill-equipped for: a beauty pageant.

!Spoiler for anyone who didn't see it coming! Happily for her, the miracle of movie magic makes it all possible - ignoring any more realistic scenario in which a woman like her would be blown off in seconds for not adhering to Western beauty industry standards.

This one's not like any of a number of other beauty contest films, in which an essentially spectacular girl has her light hidden under a bushel of bad clothes and glasses, to be revealed in time to win in the final reel. And that's because this film is fundamentally a wish-fulfilment fantasy for - pardon me - fat, ugly, spoilt girls who don't look like Sandra Bullock at her messiest. Its message is that external attractiveness doesn't count as much as 'inner beauty'. Of course, the convenient thing about the inner variety is that there's no agreed standard, so just about anyone can claim it and be believable.

Our Becca has loads, of course, as she reveals constantly. The result is inevitable: hip, hip, hooray, the cute blonde is defeated (worse, she's converted), to the vicarious - not very beautiful - schadenfreude of the Becca-alikes in the audience.

The depressing thing about all this is that of course inner beauty exists, and of course it really is ultimately more profound than the external kind. But to specifically pit inner beauty against good looks *in a good-looks contest* is silly, pointless, and smacks of vicarious spoilt greed. A rather ugly film.

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I just saw the new TV movie Beautiful Girl on ABC family channel. Marissa Jaret Winokur plays the lead and they couldn't have picked a better actress. Marissa is perfect! She is sooo beautiful. And is SHE TALENTED! The costumes and the casting were right on the money. Fran Dreasher was very good, as well as the actress that played the mother/grandmother (didn't catch her name). But it's Marissa that drives the show, and does she! This young lady is a force to be reckoned with. Although this movie is not a blockbuster (hey,it's TV) it sends out a very good message, that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But, we have to look passed the cliche' of the statement and REALLY BELIEVE that beauty is beauty, no matter what color of hair or skin, tall, short, large, or small, it really doesn't matter. In your mind, if you think someone is hot,....well then, they're HOT. I definitely think that Marissa is, and I realized that the first second I saw her.

Marissa sums it up in the movie. I really don't want to spoil it by saying too much, just watch it, I think you'll enjoy it.

hey,please help me... Becca sang very incredible song in that contest... maybe somebody knows the name of this song? please,help me.i want this song.. :)

I liked this film very much.it shows that people can be beautiful not from their outside..they can be perfect and then,when they hasn't a good figure and face. and the most important thing is believing. Becca showed it to everybody.I think if In the world would be more people just like Becca every world will be more beautiful. But they shouldn't be alone. Their friends and relatives should help. :) i wish that in the world appears more people like this girl.

does anybody have this song from film? beautiful girl? i can't find it...please help me...thanks...

by the way this film is so great i love it... it's the best film i ever seen...

i can't get my mind from this film... i really enjoyed looking it...

it's in one word GREAT

and i really need some help and when someone can help me send this song on this mail eleonore2005@gmail.com Becca Wasserman is really beautiful inside but also outside no matter how fat she is... and thats great...

and she have a good looking boyfriend...