The Beautician and the Beast
Summary:
Joy Miller (Fran Drescher) is a beautician who teaches an evening course in hairstyling at a Brooklyn community college. When a cigarette dropped on a wig leads to a fire, Joy saves the lab animals kept in the building and achieves 15 minutes of local notoriety. Grushinsky (Ian McNeice), a representative of the leader of the small Eastern European nation of Slovetzia, is visiting t... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Fran Drescher - (Joy Miller)
Timothy Dalton - (Boris Pochenko)
Ian McNeice - (Grushinsky)
Patrick Malahide - (Kleist)
Lisa Jakub - (Katrina)
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Review:
Beautician and the Beast is the prototypical example of a style of romantic farce that thrived in the 1990s, even using two particularly well-worn scenarios: "opposites attract" and "outsider cons his/her way into real/metaphorical royalty." But even though the setup is unremarkably ordinary, it's executed with a certain competence, occasionally... Continue >>
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