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Beautiful Creatures [DVD] [2001]

DVD ~ Rachel Weisz
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  • Actors: Rachel Weisz, Susan Lynch, Iain Glen, Jake D'Arcy, Tom Mannion
  • Directors: Bill Eagles
  • Writers: Simon Donald
  • Producers: Alan J. Wands, Andrew Macdonald, Simon Donald
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English, German
  • Subtitles: German, English, French, Dutch, Polish, Hungarian
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Universal Pictures UK
  • DVD Release Date: 10 April 2003
  • Run Time: 86 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • ASIN: B00008WVKD
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 51,322 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Firmly in the spirit of the late 90s wave of British crime films, Beautiful Creatures stars Rachel Weisz and Susan Lynch as two young Glasgow women united against their brutally abusive boyfriends. With a corpse in the bathroom, a golf bag with a secret and seedy detective on their trail Dorothy (Lynch) and Petula (Weisz) hatch an ill-conceived fake kidnapping as their passport from an impossible situation. The film is an entertaining 84 minutes, but though there are several suspense scenes and some queasily amusing black comedy the TV style direction and generic plot fail to deliver any originality. First time feature director Bill Eagles concentrates on winning strong performances from an excellent cast and referencing The Wizard of Oz (1939) (Dorothy has a dog called Pluto, rather than Toto), Wild at Heart (2000) (watch Pluto and those fingers). Added to these are references to Thelma and Louise (1991), Shallow Grave (1994), Butterfly Kiss (1995), Bound (1996), and the film its title echoes, Heavenly Creatures (1994). Considering the graphic violence against women this would have been a stronger, more honest film had it taken itself seriously. As it is, the fashionable yet often inappropriate humour prevents Beautiful Creatures making any serious point about women's reaction to male violence, the finale degenerating into routine feel-good exploitation.

On the DVD: This is a bare-bones release with brief on-screen production notes, cast and crew credits, a page about Universal's DVD email newsletter and a static menu. The Dolby Digital 5.1 sound locks most of the audio to the centre speaker, though there's plenty of dog-barking all around the room. The anamorphically enhanced 1.77-1 transfer clearly cuts off part of the original image at both sides of the screen and is often, especially in the many night scenes, far grainier than one would expect from a feature film released in the year 2000. --Gary S Dalkin


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3.0 out of 5 stars Won't change your life but might change your mood., 8 April 2009
By Derek Smith (Brighton, UK) - See all my reviews
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Beautiful Creatures was real fun to watch. It won't change your outlook on life but will make you happier with the one you have. The plot is ridiculous, the coincidence make you feel like buying a lottery ticket, but it gets you involved. It moves on a pace and the humour is very non-PC but the naughtyness makes it more enjoyable. Susan Lynch and Rachael Weisz are superb actresses and seemed to enjoy the filiming and this comes over. It is, however, morally corrupt but that is part of the fun once you switch your morals and brain off (don't try this at home). Similar to High Heels and Low Lifes in that it is a diversion.

Recommended once you accept its limitations. Watch it two or three times as there are lots of little visual and verbal in-jokes that are too easy to miss the first time around. Well worth three stars.
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