Rated PG-13, directed by Bill Eagles, with Susan Lynch (Dorothy), Iain Glen (Tony), Jake D'Arcy (Train Guard), Rachel Weisz (Petula), Tom Mannion (Brian McMinn), Maurice Roeves (Ronnie McMinn), running time: 86 minutes.
A so-called comedic thriller, Beautiful Creatures shows that women can win in a world filled with misogynistic men. Dorothy just barely escapes her house after a beating from her boyfriend, Tony, when she stumbles upon Petula, who is herself taking a pounding from her boyfriend, Brian. Dorothy leaps to the rescue, knocking Brian over the head with a steel pipe. The two women drag him off, but he later dies when he falls out of the bathtub they've placed him in. They set up his death to look like a disappearance, all the while stirring up Thelma and Louise-sized problems that they predictably manage to overcome. Problem is, there's nothing comedic nor thrilling about watching the women become as sadistic as they men they struggle against.
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