Beautiful Creatures (2000 film)

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 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. 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."