A Beautiful Life English Movie 2009
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From director Alejandro Chomski comes this indie drama, adapted from a play by writer Wendy Hammond. The film stars Denise Richards (Wild Things) as an exotic dancer and features supporting contributions from Michael Madsen, Debi Mazar, and Dana Delany. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide
An ironically titled descent into L.A.’s muddy depths, A Beautiful Life invokes some serious topics. But it’s hard to take them seriously, because the movie piles up characters and controversies more or less at random.

Introduced while riding a bus toward the city’s Skid Row, Maggie (Angela Sarafyan) is a teenage runaway with good reason to run. When she finds temporary refuge in a homey strip club, a quick shower reveals her battered shoulders and back.

zThe joint’s featured attraction, Chinese hoofer Esther (Bai Ling), is shocked by Maggie’s bruises. She commands the club’s Salvadoran janitor, David (Jesse Garcia), to give the girl a place to sleep in his grungy industrial loft.

Maggie, a willowy suburban princess, and David, a beefy illegal immigrant, are bristlingly incompatible, so inevitably they fall in love. But Maggie soon admits to a sexual kink that complicates the relationship.

This conflicted romance would be enough to sustain a drama, especially given the eventual arrival of Maggie’s despicable dad (Jonathan LaPaglia) and loving but ineffectual mom (Desperate Housewives’ Dana Delany).

But Wendy Hammond and Deborah Calla’s script, adapted from Hammond’s stage play, insists on boosting the squalor with gamy subplots. Many of them involve Maggie and David’s frantic quest for cash.

Driven from his job by an immigration raid, David is threatened with eviction. Maggie’s temporary gigs include selling homemade bracelets on the street and working at a Korean mini-market that pays less than the minimum wage. Oh yeah, and being a drug courier.
Meanwhile, Esther fights for true love, and awaits her big break as a chanteuse. Luckily, she works at the sort of indulgent nudie bar whose management (and audience) doesn’t mind that she’d rather sing than strip.

When not hauling packets of dope to pistol-packing supermodels, meanwhile, Maggie studies for her GED. She also seeks counseling for sexual dysfunction, thanks to a librarian (Debi Mazar) who doubles as an unofficial social worker.

Argentine-bred director Alejandro Chomski could have done better with this preposterous saga, but not probably much. Even with a bigger budget and higher production values, the screenplay would have defeated him.

The actors face a similar dilemma. Sarafyan and Garcia are engaging enough, and the sharp-featured Ling is always a formidable presence, even if delivering lines in English is not among her principal skills.

But these performers, and most of the other ones, struggle with scenes that are simply unplayable. And despite closeups of gyrating strippers, the movie can’t be enjoyed as campy sleaze. A Beautiful Life is too earnest to be a hoot, and too amateurish to be anything else.

Maggie (Angela Sarafyan), a middle-class Caucasian girl running from a brutal father, David (Jesse Garcia), an illegal from El Salvador who has lost his mother along the way, and Esther (Bai Ling), a Chinese stripper and would-be singer in a blond wig, are all young adults who have befriended each other in Los Angeles (”where some come to hide and others come to dream”), in the October 9th select (Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, and Chicago) theatrical release of the film A Beautiful Life. The film has an October 2nd exclusive release at the Sunset 5 in Los AngelesAlthough the energy of youth can be seemingly limitless, the small group is constantly confronted with bullies, robbers manipulators, possible deportation, unpaid bills and the need to work jobs they never envisioned (e.g. running drugs) just to get by.

“I wanted a beautiful life too,” David tells Maggie, but the past gets in the way, and somehow the present is always fraught with worry. Angela Saraflyan gives a very touching performance as Maggie, helped by the fact that her looks are not typical or perfect, and Esther, played by Bai Ling, a beauty to whom guys are constantly attracted, can only dream of a large stage on which she’s singing to thousands and thousands of people.Yet ultimately, the friends are loyal to each other and try to understand each other, although each comes from such a dissimilar background. What can David do when he has no money to hire someone to find his mother “left somewhere near the border”, and what can Esther do when the guys she wants have no intention of being faithful to her and the guys she doesn’t want obsess over her? Maggie may have the most difficult situation of them all, discovering learned elements within herself that are decidedly unattractive and that are now strongly rooted in her subconscious
I would recommend watching A Beautiful Life with the family, because although it’s unrated there are many sexual and drug themes involved. The film represents life as messy and somewhat impossible (when you’re severed from your family), although the performances of the three main characters are both solid and endearing, and, in the end, hopeful.

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ast and Crew

Release Date: 10/2/2009
Director : Alejandro Chomski
Cast :: Jesse Garcia ,Angela Sarafyan ,Dana Delany ,Bai Ling ,Debi Mazar ,Rena Owen ,Jonathan LaPaglia ,Ronnie ,Blevins ,Enrique Castillo ,Meltem Cumbul
Genre: Social issue melodrama , Drama
Running Time: 81 minutes

Whats Your Raashee

Director: Ashutosh Gowarikar
Producer: Sunitha,Ronnie Screwvala
Starring: Priyanka Chopra, Hurman S. Baweja, Anjan Shrivastava, Visswa Badola, Rajesh Vivek, Dilip Joshi, Daya Shankar Pandey, Honey Chhaya, Darshan Jariwala, Manju Singh, Bhairavi Vaidya, Pratik Dixit, Manoj Shah, Dr. Ajit Kulkarni, Geeta Tyagi
Music Dir: Sohail Sen

Director Ashutosh Gowarikar turned director with a flop film Baazi starring his close friend Aamir Khan. No one took note of him until he made the superhit film Lagaan which not only established him as a front line director in India but won his global accolades.

He rose another few notches when he made Swades and Gowarikar completed the hattrick of his hits with his last film Jodhaa Akbar. So, after making three hits in a row what one could expect from such a celebrated director? Another entertainer, but Ashutosh’s midas touch seems to have been lost somewhere this time while making his latest What’s Your Rashee?.

If you look at the last three hits from Ashutosh’s stable of films, each one of them had major stars, and it was their sheer presence in the film and its story that made Gowarikar’s film a rage even before its official release.

This time he put his bet on a novice, Harman Baweja who had made a disastrous debut with his home production Love Story 2050. Harman Baweja saved his face from this super flop when a director like Ashutosh Gowariker announced his next with him, What’s Your Rashee?

Ashutosh Gowariker was also recently in the news for rebuking and turning down several film awards’ functions. People in the Hindi film industry started labeling him as an egotist. Many would think that indeed this flop has given him the necessary “speed breaker” in his career so that he can start thinking of film making all over again.

Ashutosh had a good story in his hand from a novel written by Madhu Rey, but what he did not have was a right script for his film. The film has all the naach-ganna and rona-dhona that have been traditional ingredients of a hindi pot boiler, but he failed in getting the plot points of the film right.

What’s Your Rashee? Is actually like a plate full of different kinds of sweets served during the Durga Puja festiveal. You want to eat each one of them because they look yummy, but once you start eating them you realize that there is not much difference in one from another. By the time you are about to taste the last one, you are fed up of the taste. Same thing happens with the stories interwoven in the plot of this film.

A young boy (Harman Baweja) who has been dreaming all his life for a love marriage is suddenly put in a situation where he has to find a bride for himself in a limited number of days. He has no clue as to what to do now, so he plans to meet one girl of each zodiac sign.

Sounds ridiculous, doesn’t it ? Yes, the plot of the film is so crazy that a common viewer finds it hard to keep track of what is going on. The different girls played by Priyanka Chopra may be a mile stone for the actress and she may find her name entered in some record books for this, but it is not the same case for the film producers.

May be the producers knew the fate of the film in advance and that is why for the last two three days there was a huge cry over piracy of the film and they even went ahead and filed legal suits against their labs and digital distributors ! All said and done, What’s Your Rashee? would have been a non-starter even if there was no piracy.

The weakest link of the film is its script. The film never really takes off from the ground, it moves on the same geographical level except in the end when the director tries to make the film melodramatic by inserting few characters from out of the blue.

Director Ashutosh Gowariker has failed in this film miserably, not only on the directorial front but also on chosing a wrong script. Harman Baweja had huge hopes from this film but his rashee seems to be affected by some bad planets, he needs a good astrologer for sure now.

Priyanka Chopra will not suffer much from the failure of this film because she has a line of super hits in the recent past. What’s Your Rashee? is a more-than-below average film that has no scope of survival at the box office.