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This Beautiful Fantastic

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United Kingdom, United States · 2016
Rated PG · 1h 40m
Director Simon Aboud
Starring Jessica Brown Findlay, Tom Wilkinson, Andrew Scott, Jeremy Irvine
Genre Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance

When quirky and introverted Bella Brown is forced by her landlord to tend to her neglected garden, she forms and unlikely friendship with the cantankerous old widower next door who happens to be a skilled horticulturalist. Bella soon learns to step out of her bubble, try new things, and form lasting connections with the people in her life.

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Variety by Dennis Harvey

Everything about “Fantastic” is designed to charm, and its success in that respect will depend upon the viewer’s susceptibility to cuteness and contrivance ladled on with some proficiency but no subtlety whatsoever.

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Washington Post by Michael O'Sullivan

Depending on how you take your twee — sparingly or, as is the case in this preciously concocted tale of English misfits, slathered like marmalade over a crumpet — it will either delight or quickly cloy.

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Observer by Rex Reed

A charming, beautifully photographed modern fairy tale about love and gardening, This Beautiful Fantastic is worth seeing in spite of its dumb deterrent of a title.

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Movie Nation by Roger Moore

Findlay and Scott don’t force their charm on us, Wilkinson makes the aphorisms, anecdotes and literary quotations poetic and warm. So much of it takes place in the flowers and brambles of a garden that the movie smells like spring.

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RogerEbert.com by Sheila O'Malley

This Beautiful Fantastic is not meant to be realistic. It's supposed to be a fairy tale. That's fine, but it's a very low-stakes fairy tale, wrapped in a strained garden metaphor.

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The Hollywood Reporter by Sheri Linden

Writer-director Simon Aboud doesn’t push the quirk factor; even when the narrative is at its most playful, he keeps it rooted to a lived-in reality. Mining familiar territory with an earnest clarity, he shapes a mild yet winning fantasy about hearts opening and friendships blooming.

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