Beautiful Thing
1996 · Film · Hettie Macdonald
Two boys on a South London estate, and the sweetest ending in queer film.
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What is Beautiful Thing about?
Two teenage neighbors in a working-class London estate fall for each other over one hot summer.
It gives working-class queer kids a happy ending in public, and in 1996 that was radical. It still hits.