Beautiful Creatures (2000 film)

2001 film by Bill Eagles

  • 23 August 2000 (2000-08-23) (EIFF)
Running time
86 minCountryUnited KingdomLanguagesEnglish
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

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

  • 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

On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 38% based on reviews from 60 critics.[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

  1. ^ "Beautiful Creatures (1999)". BBFC. Retrieved 1 May 2021.
  2. ^ "Beautiful Creatures (2000)". MRQE. Retrieved 1 June 2012.
  3. ^ "Beautiful Creatures (2000)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  4. ^ "Beautiful Creatures". Metacritic.
  5. ^ Ebert, Roger (20 April 2001). "Beautiful Creatures movie review (2001)". Chicago Sun-Times.
  • Beautiful Creatures at IMDb


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