Beautiful (2009 film)

Beautiful
Original poster
Directed byDean O'Flaherty
Written byDean O'Flaherty
Produced byMatt Hearn
Elene Pepper
Kent Smith
Kate Butler
StarringDeborra-Lee Furness
Peta Wilson
Sebastian Gregory
Tahyna Tozzi
Erik Thomson
CinematographyKent Smith
Edited byMarty Pepper
Dale Roberts
Music byKym Green
Bryce Jacobs
Distributed byJump Street Films (Australia)
Release date
  • 5 March 2009 (2009-03-05)
Running time
97 minutes
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
BudgetA$1,500,000
Box officeA$56,101

Beautiful is a 2009 Australian independent film, written and directed by Dean O'Flaherty, which was released by Adelaide-based Kojo Pictures on 5 March 2009. The film marked the feature filmmaking debut of both O'Flaherty and Kojo Pictures. The South Australian Film Corporation provided approximately 10 per cent of the $1.5m budget, while the rest came from private investors.

Beautiful was the first film in Australia to receive the new (at the time) 40% Producers Rebate from the Federal Government. The film received a poor response, taking only $56,000 at the Australian box office in its short cinema release.

It was invited to screen at the 12th Shanghai International Film Festival, in June 2010, and later sold "to France and all French-speaking European territories ... Japan ... Poland, Middle East, Russia, Mexico and HBO Eastern Europe."