Two women who might not guess just how much they have in common are brought together under highly unusual circumstances in this dark comedy. Dorothy (Susan Lynch) is an upper-class British woman whose marriage to Tony (Iain Glen) is on the rocks; after a furious argument during a trip out of town, Dorothy arrives home to discovers Tony has left, but not before trashing their flat and everything in it. While trying to catch a bus across town, Dorothy sees a man who appears to be drunk, reading the riot act to a woman cowering at his insults. Enraged, Dorothy attacks the man with a pole, knocking him out. The woman, named Petula (Rachel Weisz), informs Dorothy that her victim is Brian (Tom Mannion), her boyfriend, who is also the brother of Ronnie (Maurice Roeves), her employer. Petula helps Dorothy drag the unconscious Brian back to her apartment, but they soon discover that she didn't just knock him out; she mortally wounded him. Now Dorothy and Petula have to dispose of a dead body while keeping the facts away from Brian's family, as well as the law. Beautiful Creatures was the first feature produced by DNA Films, a production company financed in part by the U.K. Lotto and headed up by two of Britain's leading producers, Duncan Kentworthy and Andrew Macdonald.