Some Kind of Beautiful

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. Kate told Richard, she likes someone else. They got divorced, but it didn't stop Richard moving on. Before he married Kate, he was in love with Olivia, Kate's sister. So they started dating and got back together after his divorce.

Cast

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.