Beautiful Creatures (2000 film)
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Beautiful Creatures is a 2000 British crime film directed by Bill Eagles and starring Susan Lynch and Rachel Weisz.[1] 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. 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."[2] On Metacritic it has a score of 40% based on reviews from 22 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[3]
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."[4]
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- 2000 crime comedy films
- 2000s English-language films
- 2000s German-language films
- British crime comedy-drama films
- DNA Films films
- Universal Pictures films
- 2000 directorial debut films
- Films directed by Bill Eagles
- 2000s British films
- 2000 crime drama films
- Films scored by Murray Gold
- English-language crime comedy-drama films