Beautiful People

Sep 16, 1999

1h 47m

★ 6.0

A comic collision of chaos and coincidence

Overview

In London, during October 1993, England is playing Holland in the preliminaries of the World Cup. The Bosnian War is at its height, and refugees from the ex-Yugoslavia are arriving. Football rivals, and political adversaries from the Balkans all precipitate conflict and amusing situations. Meanwhile, the lives of four English families are affected in different ways by encounter with the refugees.

Genres

War

Comedy

Drama

Production Companies

British Screen Productions

Arts Council of England

BFI

Beautiful People Trailers

Cast

Portia Thornton

Charlotte Coleman

George Thornton

Charles Kay

Nora Thornton

Rosalind Ayres

Edward Thornton

Julian Firth

Joseph Thornton

Edward Jewesbury

Dr Mouldy

Nicholas Farrell

Griffin Midge

Danny Nussbaum

Roger Midge

Roger Sloman

Felicity Midge

Heather Tobias

Railway Worker

Kenan Hudaverdi

Croat

Faruk Pruti

Serb

Dado Jehan

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