Beautiful Thing: Screenplay (Screen and Cinema) [Paperback]

Jonathan Harvey (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0413705706 | ISBN-13: 978-0413705709 | Publication Date: June 24, 1996

Premiered at the Bush theatre in 1993 Beautiful Thing was released as a feature film by Channel Four films in 1996 directed by Hettie Macdonald and featuring Meera Syal

Beautiful Thing explores pre-teenage homo-erotic sensuality and the frictions and intimacies of living cheek by jowl on a Thamesmead housing estate.

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About the Author

Jonathan Harvey is an award-winning playwright, whose plays include: The Cherry Blossom Tree (Liverpool Playhouse Studio) which won him the 1987 National Girobank Young Writer of the Year Award; Wildfire (Royal Court Theatre); Beautiful Thing (Bush Theatre, London and Donmar Warehouse/Duke of York's Theatre), winner of the John Whiting Award 1994; Babies (Royal National Theatre Studio/Royal Court Theatre), winner George Devine Award 1993 and Evening Standard's Most Promising Playwright Award 1994; Boom Bang-A-Bang (Bush Theatre); Rupert Street Lonely Hearts Club (English Touring Theatre/Contact Theatre Company, Donmar Warehouse/Criterion Theatre); Swan Song (Pleasance/Hampstead Theatre); Guiding Star (Liverpool Everyman/National Theatre); Hushabye Mountain (English Touring Theatre/Hampstead) and Out in the Open (Hampstead Theatre/Birmingham Rep). Television and film work includes: West End Girls (Carlton); Love Junkie (BBC); Beautiful Thing (Channel Four/Island World Productions); Gimme Gimme Gimme (BBC).

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Methuen Drama (June 24, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0413705706
• ISBN-13: 978-0413705709
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 4.8 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,435,085 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Beautiful Thing" Is Just That, May 3, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Beautiful Thing: Screenplay (Screen and Cinema) (Paperback)

The tale of two British boys who fall in love in the Thamesmead council estate hits home for all of us, no matter what sexual orientation, age, nationality or upbringing. Jonathan Harvey does a great job of translating his simple, well-written stage production into a broadened, wonderful screenplay. The big screen gave him the chance to further develop the characters of Jamie, Ste and the others. And the "BT" script gives avid fans the opportunity to pick up and understand the thick south London tongue used in the movie

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5.0 out of 5 stars BEAUTIFUL THING, CHANGED THE WAY TO SEE THE LIFE., April 5, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Beautiful Thing: Screenplay (Screen and Cinema) (Paperback)

I BELIEVE, THAT BEAUTIFUL THING IS THE MOST IMPORTANT FILM OF GAY GENRE THAT I'D HAS SEE, IS A FRESH FILM, THAT TELL US A STORY VERY COMMON IN OUR SOCIETY. I ALWAYS BELIEVED THAT THE HOMOSEXUALITY WAS SOMETHING BAD, BUT WITH THIS FILM I CHANGED MY POSITION IN FRONT THIS CONCEPT. THE ACTORS SCOTT NEAL AND GLEN BERRY BETWEEN OTHERS MAKED AN ESPECTACULAR ROLL AND CONGRATULATIONS TO THE SCREENWRITER AND THE DIRECTOR, THE SCREENPLAY IS VERY GRATEFUL.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Wonderful Story of First Love, December 15, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Beautiful Thing: Screenplay (Screen and Cinema) (Paperback)

Beautiful Thing is one of the warmest, most positive stories about gay love I have ever read. More importantly, it is about love in general, and all the fears, hopes, dreams, etc. that go with first love, not just gay love. I can't recommend it more highly for anyone, gay or straight.