DVD: Stage Beauty.

I bought this a while ago and never got around to watching it. Which just proves I’m a moron because this is a great movie and I can only hazard a guess that the stars’ extracurricular activities (Billy Crudup and Claire Danes hooking up on this movie and Crudup dumping his 7 months pregnant girlfriend Mary-Louise Parker) kept people from going to it (yes, Jen, I’m thinking of you and assuming that would give you even more pause than the Brangelina situation did over “Mr & Mrs. Smith”).

It’s just beautiful. Heartbreakingly, wrenchingly, poignantly beautiful. How do you find yourself again when all that is YOU has been lost? Ouch.

Crudup is amazing. And there’s a pretty humorous scene where you cannot help but notice (if you haven’t before) how incredibly flatchested Danes is as she has to bare her breast basically “to show she’s a woman” yet when she bares it…well, I’m not sure that proved anything! Ah ha ha ha ha. I used to feel your pain, Claire, 35-some pounds ago…