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.

[1] The South Australian Film Corporation provided approximately 10 per cent of the $1.5m budget, while the rest came from private investors.

[2] Beautiful was the first film in Australia to receive the new (at the time) 40% Producers Rebate from the Federal Government.

[3] The film received a poor response, taking only $56,000 at the Australian box office in its short cinema release.

[4] 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.

"[5] In the fictional Adelaide suburb of Sunshine Hills, three teenage girls have disappeared: Jenny Wells (found in a dumpster with her body cut open), Teresa Fields (found impaled and hanging from a clothesline), and Amanda Howatt, who disappeared three days earlier.

14-year-old Danny Hobson is a loner, who lives with his police officer father Alan and stepmother Sherrie.

Danny steals Alan's gun and goes to the house, where Jennifer takes him to the backroom, where Max is waiting for him.

"[7] Thomas Caldwell of Cinema Autopsy described the film as "derivative", while mentioning Blue Velvet, American Beauty, Happiness and Donnie Darko.

[11] The iconic lawn chair scene, pictured above, is a homage to Stanley Kubrick's Lolita.

According to footage in the DVD extras, the scene was shot at a house near the corner of Greenwood Grove and Meadowbank Rise (34°58′0.88″S 138°38′13.08″E / 34.9669111°S 138.6369667°E / -34.9669111; 138.6369667), Urrbrae, South Australia.