Beautiful Creatures 2000  R, 88 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Thriller
Director: Bill Eagles
Cast: Rachel Weisz, Susan Lynch, Iain Glen, Maurice Roeves, Tom Mannion, Alex Norton, Pauline Lynch, Ellie Haddington, Paul Higgins, Jake D'Arcy, Paul Doonan, Robin Laing, Ron Donachie, Joel Strachan, Stewart Preston
Petula (Rachel Weisz) and Dorothy (Susan Lynch) share in their poor judgment of men, which becomes clear when Tony (Iain Glen) throws paint at Dorothy when she leaves him and Brian (Tom Mannion) tries to strangle Petula for even less reason. But Dorothy manages to save Petula by heaving a heavy pipe across Brian's head. Brian later dies, and the women are faced with the problem of hiding a corpse. The solution: cut off Brian's finger and send it with a ransom note.
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The Jungle Book 1994  PG, 108 min.
Genre: Family / Adventure / Romance
aka: Rudyard Kipling's the Jungle Book
Director: Stephen Sommers
Cast: Jason Scott Lee, Cary Elwes, Lena Headey, Sam Neill, John Cleese, Jason Flemyng, Stefan Kalipha, Faran Tahir, Ron Donachie, Anirudh Agarwal, Sean Naegeli, Liza Walker, Rachel Robertson, Joanna Wolff, Natalie Morse
As a young Indian boy, Mowgli (Jason Scott Lee) was raised by wolves. The movie begins with an older Mowgli falling in love with Kitty (Lena Headey). Together, Mowgli, Kitty, and Kitty's boyfriend Capt. Boone (Cary Elwes) set off to find a lost city. Along the way they encounter Mowgli's animal friends. Good Disney fare.
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The Scarlet Pimpernel 1999 TV, 90 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama
Director: Patrick Lau
Cast: Richard E. Grant, Elizabeth McGovern, Martin Shaw, Anthony Green, Ronan Vibert, Christopher Fairbank, Gerard Murphy, Ron Donachie, Beth Goddard, Milton Johns, John McEnery, Jonathan Coy, Petra Spindler, Zdenek Srstka, Pavel Kriz
Not a bad remake of the classic story as Richard E. Grant takes on the role of Sir Percy Blakeney who saves aristocrats from the guillotine during the French Revolution. Blakeney disguises himself and rescues innocent victims who are sentenced to the guillotine. Unbeknownst to his wife Marguerite (Elizabeth McGovern), Blakeney carries out his efforts and leaves behind a red pimpernel flower for which he is named. When Chauvelin (Martin Shaw) closes in on the case, he uses Marguerite to trap the Pimpernel.
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| 1. Beautiful Creatures (2000)
2. Crossing to Freedom (1990)
3. The Jungle Book (1994)
aka: Rudyard Kipling's the Jungle Book
4. The Scarlet Pimpernel (1999)
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