Beautiful Disaster is a 2023 American romantic comedy drama film directed and written by Roger Kumble.

Based on Jamie McGuire's 2011 novel, the film follows Abby, a college freshman, in hopes to reinvent herself while trying to resist her attraction to bad boy, Travis.

Abby Abernathy, groomed from a young age by her father to excel at cards, leaves her home in Las Vegas in hopes of reinventing herself in college.

Although Abby does meet with him at the designated time, she dresses in a decidedly non-sexy way, will not allow him to pay and clearly establishes they are only platonic friends.

Heading to Vegas, supposedly so Abby can pay back her father's $100,000 debt, she is successful and about to leave when a security guard she grew up with stops her.

Told she still owes the money, Travis offers to participate in a prize fight to win it back.

In 2020, it was optioned by Voltage Pictures, production began in 2021 with Roger Kumble directing, and Dylan Sprouse, Rob Estes and Virginia Gardner in the cast.

[5] The project received public criticism due to McGuire's controversial far-right political statements.

[6][7][8] Beautiful Disaster was released in the United States for two nights only, April 12–13, as part of Fathom Events.