Beautiful Creatures (2000 film)
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| Beautiful Creatures | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Bill Eagles |
| Written by | Simon Donald |
| Produced by | Simon Donald |
| Starring | Rachel Weisz Susan Lynch Iain Glen Maurice Roëves Tom Mannion Alex Norton |
| Cinematography | James Welland |
| Edited by | Jon Gregory David Head |
| Music by | Murray Gold |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures International (through United International Pictures[1]) |
Release date |
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Running time | 86 min |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Languages | English German |
Beautiful Creatures is a 2000 British crime film directed by Bill Eagles and starring Susan Lynch and Rachel Weisz.[2] Lynch received a British Independent Film Award nomination for her role.
Plot
[edit]Two women with bad taste in men are thrown together when one accidentally kills the other's boyfriend when attempting to stop a public beating. They attempt to rob the dead man's wealthy brother with a ransom scam, but when a corrupt detective gets involved things go awry.
Cast
[edit]- Rachel Weisz as Petula
- Susan Lynch as Dorothy
- Iain Glen as Tony
- Tom Mannion as Brian McMinn
- Maurice Roëves as Ronnie McMinn
- Alex Norton as Detective Inspector Hepburn
- Jake D'Arcy as Train Guard
- Juliet Cadzow as Mother on Beach
Reception
[edit]On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 38% based on reviews from 60 critics. The website's critics consensus reads, "Implausible, uneven, and gratuitously violent, this esotrogen-powered crime caper lacks the finesse of Thelma and Louise or Guy Ritchie's work."[3] On Metacritic it has a score of 40% based on reviews from 22 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[4]
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 1.5 out of 4 and wrote: "There is some dark humor in the movie, of the kind where you laugh that you may not gag."[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Beautiful Creatures (1999)". BBFC. Retrieved 1 May 2021.
- ^ "Beautiful Creatures (2000)". MRQE. Retrieved 1 June 2012.
- ^ "Beautiful Creatures (2000)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- ^ "Beautiful Creatures". Metacritic.
- ^ Ebert, Roger (20 April 2001). "Beautiful Creatures movie review (2001)". Chicago Sun-Times.
External links
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