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No Such Thing

Synopsis:

Beauty meets the Beast, and neither is sure just what to make of the other, in a modern-dress comic variation on the ancient folk tale, written and directed by the eternally offbeat Hal Hartley. Beatrice (Sarah Polley) works with the office staff of a sleazy tabloid TV news show, run by a harridan producer (Helen Mirren) eager for something other than the usual spate of violent crimes and natural disasters that are her show's bread and butter. The producer sends her camera crew to Iceland in search of something new and unusual, and they certainly find it when they run across a village that has its own monster (Robert John Burke), a large part-mammal and part-lizard with a short temper and habit of killing people who get on his nerves.


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Movie Details:

  • Director: Hal Hartley
  • Studio: True Fiction Pictures, American Zoetrope, Icelandic Film Corp., United Artists
  • Year: 2001
  • Run Time: 101 minutes
  • Country: USA
  • Language: English
  • MPAA Rating: R (for language and brief violence)
  • Category: Feature
  • Genre/Type: Comedy Drama, Fantasy
  • Filmed in: Color
  • Release: 2002 03 29 (USA - Limited)

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