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The Beautician And The Beast

[1997, Movie]

The Beautician And The Beast: Review

Relatively inoffensive, fairy-tale fluff that contrives to deposit brassy Queens beautician with a heart of gold Joy Miller (Fran Drescher) in the heart of a grimly contemporary version of the sort of imaginary mittel-European kingdom where once found romance. She's meant to teach science to the children of the titular beast, President-for-Life Boris Pochenko (Timothy Dalton), a dictator who bears an uncanny and not especially amusing resemblance to Joseph Stalin. Instead, s... read more