Beautiful Thing is a heart warming, inspiring and sickening, unrealistic fable of two boys falling in love on their South East London council estate.
Ste, a normally attractive, secretly sensitive, geezer type, lives with his creepy peado looking father and his skinny, acts as sexy as hell but isn't really, drug dealing brother, and Jaimie, an adorably undistinguishable, strawberry blonde kid who lives with his mother and occasionally with her hippy, somewhat trustafarian boyfriend, discover a shared penchant for man on man sexy times during a rather nice hot Summer.
Oh and did I mention it's mostly set to the soundtrack of Mama Cass and The Mama's and Papa's? It doesn't really get much better than that!
Oh wait, yes it does...best supporting actress award goes to Tameka Thompson as the fluorescent and incandescent Leah Russel! She struts around the film exuding a characteristic coolness, dropping one liners in her wake.
...and it's based on a play...
Ste, a normally attractive, secretly sensitive, geezer type, lives with his creepy peado looking father and his skinny, acts as sexy as hell but isn't really, drug dealing brother, and Jaimie, an adorably undistinguishable, strawberry blonde kid who lives with his mother and occasionally with her hippy, somewhat trustafarian boyfriend, discover a shared penchant for man on man sexy times during a rather nice hot Summer.
Oh and did I mention it's mostly set to the soundtrack of Mama Cass and The Mama's and Papa's? It doesn't really get much better than that!
Oh wait, yes it does...best supporting actress award goes to Tameka Thompson as the fluorescent and incandescent Leah Russel! She struts around the film exuding a characteristic coolness, dropping one liners in her wake.
...and it's based on a play...
