Beautiful Creatures is a 2000 British crime film directed by Bill Eagles and starring Susan Lynch and Rachel Weisz. Lynch received a British Independent Film Award nomination for her role.
Plot Two women are thrown together when one accidentally kills the other's boyfriend while 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." On Metacritic it has a score of 40% based on reviews from 22 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".
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."
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