The Beautician and the Beast 1997 123movies

Watch: The Beautician and the Beast 1997 123movies, Full Movie Online – A beautician in America is mistakenly thought to be an academic teacher by a representative of an Eastern European dictator. She is invited to their country on that mistaken belief and is asked to be the tutor of the dictator’s children. While there, she tries to Westernize the whole country..
Plot: The story follows the misadventures of a New York City beautician who is mistakenly hired as the school teacher for the children of the president of a small Eastern European country.
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Ratings:

	5.4/10 Votes: 9,441
	18% | RottenTomatoes
	N/A | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 298 Popularity: 13.44 | TMDB

Reviews:

The Nanny goes to Slovetzia
Hey, like many people, I happen to like “The Nanny”. I also like Fran Dresscher in “The Nanny”. (I don’t think I need to explain this any further. A lot of people like this show.) Once in a while I like to watch light, fun, mindless movies. I suppose this all pretty well explains why I enjoyed “The Beautician and the Beast”.

Fran plays almost the same familiar role, except instead of Mr Sheffield we have President-for-Life Pochenko of Slovetzia (Tim Dalton). He’s an old school dictator and a disciplinarian as a father; however, she eventually captures his heart and gets him to change his ways. His oppressed children love her, of course. Think of Maria and Capt von Trapp. None of it is realistic, but that’s part of the movie’s charm. It has the same kind of humour as the television show, plus a good deal of gentle ribbing of Slavic countries and dictatorships. I watched the film on TV in Croatia, so I don’t think they mind.

I see this movie is rated rather poorly here on IMDb.com. It also didn’t do well at the box office. Don’t let this influence your decision to watch it. If you like “The Nanny”, you’ll enjoy this movie too.

A one and a half our episode of The Nanny
Now what to make of this movie. I have only watched five minutes of the pilot episode of the nanny, as well as the closing minutes of a number of episodes and have decided that I don’t particularly like it. The Beautician and the Beast is basically the Nanny made into a movie, with a few things altered. She isn’t sacked from a beauty parlour, but is brought into the home of a really rich man (actually an Eastern European dictator) as a nanny. The movie is quite funny in parts but a really do not think much of Fran Dresure (sp?), especially how I heard the comment that her character in this movie is exactly the same as her character in the nanny.

This movie makes numerous assumptions about ‘decadent American society’ in which it destroys. Rather it attacks the eastern European dictatorship and makes America look like a wonderful place. The promiscuous American is destroyed with Fran’s character: she is not interested in guys until the right one comes along, and it is obvious that it was going to be Pochenko (Timothy Dalton), and as the movie draws to the close the idealistic Hollywood ideal of love is emphasised in the most sickening way.

The movie blatantly has a go at how these communist nations allegedly altered history to suit themselves. Stalin allegedly did this to make him look like he was really close to Lenin when he was not. America subtly does this with their claims that World War 1 started in 1917 and World War II begins in 1942, the years they became involved in both wars. This is done more as a joke than as an attack, because now communist has gone and everybody can live happily in the marvelous freedom that a democracy brings. Yet Fran is extremely cynical about democratic politicians as she quotes “they’re politicians, you can’t trust them.” Beautician and the Beast is really a remake of Sound of Music with the music replaced with comedy. The movie blatantly steals from the original with the clothes made out of sheets. There are a lot of similarities, a nanny coming in to take care of a very powerful man’s children. In Sound of Music he was a Nazi commander while in this movie he is a communist dictator.

The last interesting thing to note is when Pochenko is addressing the peasants from a balcony. They scream and cheer at his words. He then walks into the building and Joy Miller (Fran Desure) walks out and thrusts her arms into the air and the crowd cheers. This strikes Pochenko with the fact that it is not him that they cheer, but rather anybody who stands there. Fear is thrust onto people whereas respect is earned.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 45 min (105 min)
Budget 16000000
Revenue 11486880
Status Released
Rated PG
Genre Comedy, Romance
Director Ken Kwapis
Writer Todd Graff
Actors Fran Drescher, Timothy Dalton, Ian McNeice
Country United States
Awards 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process N/A
Printed Film Format 35 mm