Sally Field's Directorial Debut

(CBS)  Sally Field has won two Oscars and an Emmy as an actress, but like the old joke, what she really wants to do now is direct. Her directorial debut, Beautiful, opens this weekend.

CBS News Early Show Contributor Laurie Hibberd has more in her Weekend Marquee.

Beautiful stars Minnie Driver as a young woman obsessed with beauty pageants and Joey Lauren Adams as her long-suffering best friend. Hibberd caught up with Field and Adams at a screening room at Planet Hollywood.

Adams said that Field was quick to praise the actors.

"If Sally Field said it was good, it was good. Sometimes she'd get goose bumps. That was the best, to do a take, give Sally goose bumps. The highlight of my day," said Adams.

"I think the thing I initially fell in love with and stayed in love with was the character, the Mona character [played by Driver], and this funny little family they create for themselves," said Field.

The cast and crew formed a family as well.

"We had a great unit. We had a great little family," Adams said.

Field said that Driver gave a fearless performance.

"She was in those outfits all day long, just wearing heels all day long and running down the street in the various things she had to do in the outfits," recalls Field.

But while the world of beauty pageants is easy to mock, both Field and Adams found respect for the institution, especially when they realized it sends more women to college than any other scholarship program.

Moving along to other movies, Hibberd says that Remember The Titans is "a great film, great for Denzel, good showcase for him" but "it makes you cry from start to finish."

The film is based on a true story. In 1971, the Alexandria school board integrated an all-black high school with an all-white school. Washington plays Coach Herman Boone, a successful black football coach chosen over a white coach to lead an integrated team. The coaches took the kids from different social backgrounds and turned them into a solid and winning team. The team and its student leaders are credited with saving the city from turning on itself.

President Clinton, who went to a screening of the movie Thursday night, said stories like those in the film inspire him to try to end fighting throughout the world.

"I only wish we could learn again the things that these men learned every day from each other," Mr. Clinton told the crowd outside the Uptown Theater after seeing the movie.

"They won a victory of the human heart," Mr. Clinton said.

Hibberd suggests that people "bring a box of Kleenex."

CBS News Correspondent Teri Okita reports that the Sundance prize-winning film Girlfight opens this weekend. It's the story of a hostile teen-age girl who tries to make changes in her life by becoming a boxer.