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No Such Thing
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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. The show's camera crew (including Beatrice's boyfriend) doesn't survive their first encounter with the monster, and Beatrice is sent to find out what happened to them. En route to Iceland, Beatrice's plane crashes into the waters off the coast, and while she survives the accident, a group of unsympathetic locals decide (after a few drinks too many) to take her to the monster's lair, where a grim fate doubtless awaits her. Except that the monster is a bit depressed and Beatrice isn't in the mood to take any guff from anyone; after the monster wonders aloud why folks aren't as frightened of him as they once were, he asks Beatrice to help him find Dr. Artaud (Baltasar Kormakur), a mad scientist who might be able to cure him of the curse of eternal life. No Such Thing received its world premiere at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, where it was screened as part of the Un Certain Regard series. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Cast

Julie Christie Dr. Anna
Paul Lazar Fred
Helen Mirren The Boss
Sarah Polley Beatrice
Baltasar Kormákur Dr. Artaud
Robert Burke Monster

Production Crew

Ed Check Art Director
Jerome Brownstein Associate Producer
Michael Spiller Cinematographer
Hal Hartley Composer (Music Score)
Helga I. Stefansdottir Costume Designer
Hal Hartley Director
Steve Hamilton Editor
Francis Ford Coppola Executive Producer
Linda Reisman Executive Producer
Willi Baer Executive Producer
Michael Lerman First Assistant Director
Cecilia Kate Roque Producer
Fridrik Thór Fridriksson Producer
Hal Hartley Producer
Arni Paull Johannson Production Designer
Hal Hartley Screenwriter
Jeff Pullman Sound/Sound Designer
Kjartan Kjartansson Sound/Sound Designer
Reilly Steele Sound/Sound Designer
Randall Balsmeyer Visual Effects Supervisor
Year: 2001
Runtime: 101
Country: USA
MPAA Rating: R
for language and brief violence
Category: Feature


Color type
DuArt color

Produced by
American Zoetrope
Icelandic Film Corp.
True Fiction Pictures
United Artists

Release
March 29, 2002 (USA - Limited)
by MGM