Beautiful People (1999)
A comic collision of chaos and coincidence
In London, during October 1993, England is playing Holland in the preliminaries of the World Cup. The Bosnian War is at its height, and refugees from the ex-Yugoslavia are arriving. Football rivals, and political adversaries from the Balkans all precipitate conflict and amusing situations. Meanwhile, the lives of four English families are affected in different ways by encounter with the refugees.
- Date of release
- 1999-09-16
- TMDB
- 6.2 / 10 (23)
- Runtime
- 1h 47m
- Genres
- War, Comedy, Drama
- Director
- Jasmin Dizdar
Casting
- Charlotte Coleman — Portia Thornton
- Charles Kay — George Thornton
- Rosalind Ayres — Nora Thornton
- Julian Firth — Edward Thornton
- Edward Jewesbury — Joseph Thornton
- Nicholas Farrell — Dr Mouldy
- Danny Nussbaum — Griffin Midge
- Roger Sloman — Roger Midge
- Heather Tobias — Felicity Midge
- Kenan Hudaverdi — Railway Worker
- Faruk Pruti — Croat
- Dado Jehan — Serb
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