No Such Thing Movie Review 2001

This "Beauty and the Beast" fairytale for grownups doesn't always work but it's at least intriguing. Burke stars as an ill-tempered, drunken, ageless, nameless monster who has been terrorizing the remote areas of Iceland. When timid Beatrice (Polley) learns that her fiance, part of a news crew, has been slaughtered by the beast, she persuades her ratings-driven TV news show boss (Mirren) to send her to follow up on the story. Monster and Beatrice develop an unexpected rapport and she brings him back to New York where he's exploited, not unknowingly, as the lastest celeb.

Distribution

MGM Home Entertainment, 2500 Broadway, Santa Monica, CA 90404-6061, Phone: (310)449-3000, Fax: (310)449-3100, URL: http://www.mgmhomevideo.com, Remarks: Does not handle retail queries from consumers; contact your local video distributor.

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 103 minutes.
Originally from United States.

Cast and Crew

Genres

New York, New York, Mass Media, On the Rocks

Screenplay

Hal Hartley

Cast

Sarah Polley, Robert John Burke, Helen Mirren, Julie Christie, Baltasar Kormakur

Cinematography

Michael Spiller

Director

Hal Hartley

Music

Hal Hartley

Other

Kjartan Kjartansson, Steve Hamilton, Helga I. Stefansdottir, Arni Pall Johannsson

Producer

Hal Hartley, Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, Cecelia Kate Roque, True Fiction Pictures, American Zoetrope, Icelandic Film Corp., United Artists