BEAUTIFUL GIRLS FILM

PLOT SUMMARY: Beautiful Girls is about a group of small-town friends joining up for their first high school reunion. They find themselves evaluating their lives and their relationships. It's about growing up and facing reality.  

 

Pianist Willie Conway returns to his snowy home town to attend a high school reunion and meeting his former friends.  As Willie waits for his NY city girlfriend Tracy to arrive, Willie finds himself having a platonic love with Marty, his 13-year old next-door neighbour and also having a sexual attraction and falling for Andrea, who is also visiting the town.     The video below shows two different parts: The first one focuses on Willie and Marty and some of their most outstanding dialogues.  The second part is devoted to Willie and Andera's intense and precious conversations.  

 
WILLIE AND MARTY

Scene 1:

Once he arrives, he meets up with  his neighbour, a 13-year old girl named Marty (Natalie Portman) where they struck up a friendship as she wonders about the Conway’s sad household.

Scene 2:

Willie befriends Marty as he asks what the kids do nowadays, which isn’t much as she is going out with some boy named Andrew.  Willie feels a bit jealous since he finds himself enchanted by Marty.  

Scene 3:

Willie has an encounter with Marty at a skating rink where Marty tells him that he’s her new boyfriend. Willie likes the idea but is afraid things will change and references Winnie the Pooh about changing as Marty is given time to think about whatever relationship they might have.

MY  FAVOURITE DIALOGUES BETWEEN WILLIE AND MARTY:

Marty: If I'm not mistaken, you've come back here to the house of loneliness and tears, to Daddy Downer and Brother Bummer, to come to some sort of decision about life, a life decision if you will.

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Willie Conway: How old are you?
Marty: Thirteen. But I have an old soul.
 

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Willie Conway: [from a window] Hey.
Marty: Romeo and Juliet, the dyslexic version.

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Willie Conway: I was jealous of a little kid on a bike, because he gets to be her age, and I'm this vile old man. Like that guy, what's-his-name...
Michael 'Mo' Morris: Roman Polanski? 

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Willie Conway: What are you doing?
Marty: Another exciting Saturday night.
Willie Conway: You got many exciting Saturday nights in your future.
Marty: Yeah, yeah. So your lady's here, huh?
Willie Conway: Yeah, yeah.
Marty: I saw her. She- she's really pretty.
Willie Conway: She's OK. She's not as pretty as you, though.
Marty: Kinda got that boob-thing going for her .

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Marty: So, gonna marry that girl in New York City?
Willie: I don’t know, why?
Marty: I don’t think you should.
Willie: How come?
Marty: You should wait ’til you’re ready. You should wait ’til you meet someone who excites you.
Willie: Yeah, well you know she may not be out there.
Marty: It’s like the Wizard of Oz, William. The whole time it was right in your own backyard.
Willie: What do you mean?
Marty: You. Me and you.
Willie: Really?
Marty: Yep. You don’t think?
Willie: Well, we have a little age problem.
Marty: I know. We’re as star-crossed as Romeo and Juliet. It’s a tragedy of Elizabethan proportions.
Marty: If your feelings for me are true…you’ll wait.
Willie: Wait?
Marty: Yep. Wait five years. I’ll be 18, we can walk through this world together.
Willie: You know in five years, you won’t even remember me.
Marty: William.
Willie: I’m formed and you’re not and you still have changes to go through. You’ll change, then I’ll be Winnie the Pooh to your Christopher Robin.
Marty: No literary references left uncertain. How do you figure, Pooh?
Willie: Well, Christopher Robin outgrew Pooh. That’s how it ended, he had Pooh as a child and as he matured, he didn’t need him anymore.

BEST QUOTES: WILLIE CONWAY AND ANDERA

Andera: So why the sad face?
Willie: Job requirement. Happy piano players work the circus.

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Willie: You know how it is, the beginnings? When you first fall in love and you can’t eat, you can’t sleep and getting a call from her, it makes your day. It’s like seeing a shooting star.
Andrea: It’s the best.
Willie: Yeah, but, inevitably it goes away. It quiets down. So, this is my thing see, why get married now? Why not have two, three more of those beginning things before I, you know, settle into the big fade?
Andera: The big fade, that’s an awful way to put it.

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Willie Conway: I look at you and I think it's amazing that there's a guy out there gets to do all kinds of things with you. He gets to make you happy and spend evenings with you...  
Andera: ...make me martinis, listen to Van Morrison...
Willie Conway: ...smell your skin...
Andera: ...after a day at the beach.
Willie Conway: Yeah, and read the papers...
Andera: ...on a Sunday morning...
Willie Conway: ...a rainy Sunday morning, and pepper your belly with baby kisses... Sorry.
Andera: The thing is, there's a guy out there thinks the same thing about Tracy and he's jealous of you because you get to do all that with her. 
Willie: Let me ask you something; can you think of anything better than making love to an attractive stranger... with just an oil light to guide your way? Can you think of anything better?
Andera: Going back to Chicago. Ice cold martini. Van Morrison.
Willie Conway: Sunday papers. Got ya.

MUSIC

The music in the film is also worth noting since it’s soundtrack is very diverse with old-school classics from Neil Diamond, the Rolling Stones, Kiss, Jethro Tull, and Billy Paul to more modern stuff from Afghan Whigs, Pete Drodge, Split Enz, Ween, Morphine, and Chris Issak.