Beautiful Creatures (2000 film)

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.

Beautiful Creatures
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	DNA Films
Distributed by	Universal Pictures International (through United International Pictures[1])
Release date	23 August 2000 (2000-08-23) (EIFF)
Running time	86 min
Country	United Kingdom
Languages	English German

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."^[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]