Some Kind of Beautiful (Canadian title: How to Make Love Like an Englishman, UK title: Lessons in Love) is a 2014 comedy/romance film written by Matthew Newman, directed by Tom Vaughan, and starring Pierce Brosnan, Jessica Alba and Salma Hayek. It was produced by Kevin Frakes and Richard Lewis.
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Plot
By day, Richard Haig (Pierce Brosnan) is a successful and well-respected English professor in the UK. By night, Richard indulges his own romantic fantasies with a steady stream of beautiful undergraduates. So when Kate (Jessica Alba), Richard's stunning, athletic, 25-year-old American girlfriend tells him that she is pregnant, Richard is shocked. Putting his wandering eye behind him, he marries her and agrees to move to Los Angeles to start their family. It doesn't take long for Richard to realize that his past is hard to escape, as is the toll his strained relationship with his dysfunctional father has had on him. Meanwhile, Kate tells Richard that she has developed feelings for someone else. They get divorced and Richard is free to move on with Kate's sister Olivia (Salma Hayek), with whom he has been in love with since before he married Kate. Olivia and Richard start dating soon after.
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Cast
- Pierce Brosnan as Richard Haig
- Jessica Alba as Kate
- Salma Hayek as Olivia
- Malcolm McDowell as Gordon
- Ben McKenzie as Brian
- Merrin Dungey as Angela
- Marlee Matlin as Cindy
- Ivan Sergei as Tim
- Lombardo Boyar as Ernesto
- Fred Melamed as Victor Piggott
- Paul Rae as Chad
- Robert Mailhouse as Alan
Production
Jessica Alba, Pierce Brosnan and Kristin Scott Thomas were the first to be cast in May. Thomas later dropped out and was replaced by Salma Hayek. Ben McKenzie joined the cast on October 17.
Filming
The film was shot for 25 days, production started filming in Los Angeles on October 14, 2013 and ended on November 9, 2013.
Release
The film had its world premiere at the AFM on November 6, 2014. The film was released in Denmark on June 4, 2015. The film was released on DirecTV on July 23, 2015, prior to being released in a limited release and through video on demand on August 21, 2015.
Reception
The film received negative reviews. Metacritic gives the film a weighted average score of 11% based on reviews from 9 critics.
References
External links
- Some Kind of Beautiful on IMDb
- Some Kind of Beautiful at Rotten Tomatoes
- Some Kind of Beautiful at Metacritic
- "CANNES: First Image of Pierce Brosnan-Salma Hayek Comedy How to Make Love Like an Englishman". Variety. 19 May 2014. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
- Lincoln, Ross A. (17 July 2015). "Some Kind Of Beautiful Trailer - Pierce Brosnan's Charming Mid Life Crisis". Deadline.com. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
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