Beautiful Creatures (88 minutes, at the Cineplex Odeon Dupont Circle) is rated R for extreme violence. Rachel Weisz and Susan Lynch as battered but unbowed women.

Richard LaGravenese, the director of "Beautiful Creatures" is still surprised the film has fans over a decade later.

Alden Ehrenreich got his big break in the YA fantasy adaptation Beautiful Creatures, opposite Viola Davis, Emma Thompson, and Emmy Rossum.