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The Beautician and the Beast
(1997)
Genre(s):
Cuttin' Heads, Mistaken Identity, New York, New York, Peculiar Partners, Romantic Comedy, Royalty, The Help: Female
Cast:
Fran Drescher, Timothy Dalton, Ian McNeice, Patrick Malahide, Lisa Jakub, Michael Lerner, Phyllis Newman; DIRECTED BY: Ken Kwapis; WRITTEN BY: Todd Graff; CINEMATOGRAPHY BY: Peter Collister; MUSIC BY: Cliff Eidelman. PRODUCER: Howard W. Koch, Jr., Todd Graff, Roger Birnbaum, Fran Drescher, Peter Marc Jacobson, Koch Company, High School Sweethearts, Paramount Pictures.
Review:
Evita meets Lucille Ball when TV's "Nanny" enters Eastern Europe whining to conquer fictional "Slovetzia" royalty. Camp comedy casts Drescher as Joy, a beautician who becomes a local hero after a fire in her beauty class and is subsequently hired by a visiting emissary to tutor the children of despotic dictator Pochenko (Dalton). Overridingly well-known caricatures, loosely based on the fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast," as well as a host of old-time, culture clash movies ("The King and I," "Sound of Music" ), where the humble nanny attempts to bring joy (get it?) into the life of a man who carries the weight of the world on his shoulders. Lensed in Prague inside a Gothic, 17th-century castle. Pleasant enough, if not original, time-killer.
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