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List Price: $19.95 | | Label: Ifc
Salesrank: 45306
Released: November 25, 2008 |
| Our Price: $3.91 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
In his feature directorial debut Chad Lowe weaves a compelling family drama about William (Brett Davern), a young teenager lost in the success of his older brother Clive (David Call), a troubled high school math prodigy who has begun to drift apart from his parents (William Hurt, Rita Wilson). When William grows attached to Clive's free-spirited girlfriend (Michelle Trachtenberg), he uncovers something that will change the family forever.
Beautiful Ohio Reviews:
Pseudo-intellectual B.S. 
2009-04-08 - I haven't watched a more pretentious pseudo-intellectual crock of b.s. since HURLYBURLY. Any virtue to the story was lost in a sea of unrealistic dialog that NO American family (or any other, for that matter) would ever actually engage in. How many families actually discuss philosophy and quote poetry and expound the virtues of mathematical theory over dinner? This guy (Hurt) is supposedly so intellegent but he couldn't find anything better to do with his life than to sell insurance? Get real. Hollywood..show me something believable if you want me to get into a story.
Beautiful Ohio
2009-04-04 - I thought that this movie was so slow to the plot. Very slow.......... it was not worth the time I spent on it !!
Sorry
Amateur Direction! 
2009-03-15 - While this film had a decent plot, there is a reason it has been so-unnoticed. The direction doesn't make you curious, the script doesn't flow, the characters are annoying and the film seems to be going on on it's own without creating any questions or being relevant to the viewer. There is a character who's a math genius yet his character was very incongruous and it seems like the director is having a tough time portraying him. Another young girl who loves to break hearts was also a little twisted. This is a bit like that Christina Ricci picture where she tries to induce someone younger than her to have sex with her, only that somehow that film was more relevant.
Can't help but be cynical as ever. Do yourself a favour, close this window and do not watch this film. Want to watch a similar much better film? The Squid and the whale. But I'm sure most fans have of this fickle genre have seen that film. Cheerio.
Great Story and Fine Acting 
2008-12-07 - When I grew up, my elder brother was a genius in school, not just Math, but virtually every subject. My parents were consumed with his excellence. Like the yonger son William in the movie, I logned for my parents' and brother's acceptance. It is hard growing up in the shadow of a genius.
This movie might not be for everyone, but definitely a well done one.
Terrible Film... Culturally Destructive
2008-12-06 - WARNING: This film is TRASH. It encourages drug use, and tries to make the viewer "feel sorry" for homosexuality. The Father ends up smoking marijuana with his socially introverted son and friend, and then encourages his younger son to indulge. The worst cinema-graphic message possible is presented here. If you happen across this DVD, please consider that it WOULD be worth 10 seconds of your time to place the disk inside your microwave on high. Any more time spent with this "Un-Beautiful Ohio" will be wasted. Mathematically, watching this film will deduct 90 minutes from your lifespan.
